On laziness, productivity and elegance (part 1)

I've been doing this programming gig for a long time now, and perhaps it is a function of my age or maybe something more sinister, but I have come to a belief that most things should be easier to achieve than they often seem.

On the destruction of a software team

A couple of posts ago, I tried to describe my experience of how a high performing software team might typically be formed and how the small startup approaches this differently to the larger organisation.  The irony is often that the larger organisation, turning at the speed of a super-tanker, is often desperate to capture the same feel, culture and belonging that small startups have, but without sacrificing their rigid 9-level organisation hierarchy, job roles and pay grades - and therein lies a problem.

On the value of code coverage

I've read lots of interesting articles and blog posts on whether a high unit test code coverage percentage is a good thing to aim for or not.  After some deliberation, my answer (as always) is "it depends."