1. Joe Drumgoole 28-Oct-2009 Software Business War Stories

2. Generics

3. Digital Equipment Corporation

4. SilverPlatter

5. Nomura Research Institute

6. CR2

7. Cape Clear

8. Bank of Ireland

9. PutPlace

10. CloudSplit

11. Great Software Does what it says on the tin Does a few things very well Doesn’t eat your PC Doesn’t eat someone else’s PC Gently delights the user

12. Team Size Two people per feature No more than 3 features in parallel Big Team = Many Features Keep the team small

13. The Demands of Fashion Many silver bullets Go with the flow Tailor the fashion to the customer Don’t obsess Prepare for and expect change

14. Constants X developers will tend to lead to X+1 concurrent features Software will get slower faster than hardware will get faster 80% of your software will be written by 10% of your developers 50% of you bugs will be created by 5% of your developers It costs 10k per month per member to fund a software development team

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