Inadvertent Prudent Technical Debt
I recently stumbled upon a great talk by Martin Flower about Technical Debt.1 In the talk, he first classifies technical debt according to whether you are aw...
Project Management
To Agile or To(o) Lean
Research is agile. Not only in its software development, but in its entirety. Simply because one rarely knows where it’s going next. Research is, by its very...
Unsustainable Pace
Early in my PhD, attending my first conference, in fact, I stated that I usually don’t work on weekends and public holidays. Several jaws dropped. “How do yo...
Let Students Engineer!
There’s always too much work left to do at the end of the day. If you do the research, you don’t get around to do the programming. If you do the programming,...
Academics Code Only Prototypes
“Academic code is like startup code, only we don’t claim its production ready.” ~A speaker at the 33C3