Anecdotal observations tell me that NIH (not invented here) is for the most part dying[1]I couldn’t find any studies examining reuse statistics yet, so please send them if you know about some., and the general level of software reuse has increased significantly in the last ten years: Continue reading Choosing SW for reuse
Footnotes
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When I was a developer, I could work on a single task for several days. It was a bliss. When I started doing architecture, I noticed I had to do a lot of multi-tasking. At the very least, there will be multiple developers working on different tasks, whom I will support. Moreover, I need to talk to testers about testability, integration strategy etc. At the more senior end of the architect role, I need to talk to business stakeholders about product strategies and so on. And sometimes all this happens on a single day. Frank Buschmann wrote a nice article demonstrating A Week in the Life of an Architect, where he emphasizes keeping focus over the course of the week to ensure progress.
Thus, around the time I started architecting, I also started looking for some time management techniques: Continue reading Personal time management for the architect
Hello, it is somewhat embarrassing to have to send another heartbeat after such a short while. I’m mainly busy moving from Turkey to Switzerland, and my blog suffers from the interruption of the routine. Anyway, next post will come up in a few days. Stay tuned.