Many Butterfly collections are worthless
Github based Butterfly collecting continues to dominate research in evidence-based software engineering. The term Butterfly collecting was first applied to Zoology researchers who spent their time...
View ArticleSoftware engineering as a hedonistic activity
My discussions with both managers and developers on software development processes invariably end up on the topic of developer happiness. Managers want to keep their development teams happy, and there...
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Human reasoning is generally not logic based
From around 350 BC until the 1960s, the students were taught that people reasoned using logic, and teachers believed this to be true. In the 1960s psychologists started running experiments that asked...
View ArticleSmall team estimating in story points; a project dataset
Just before the end of last year a regular reader, Mr A., emailed to ask if I would be interested in analysing the software project data for the company he worked for. The wishing to be anonymous...
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