http://www.metafilter.com/tags/softwaredesign Posts tagged with 'softwaredesign' at MetaFilter. Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:11:47 -0800 Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:11:47 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/36823/Group%2Das%2DUser%2DFlaming%2Dand%2Dthe%2DDesign%2Dof%2DSocial%2DSoftware <a href="http://shirky.com/writings/group_user.html">Group as User:</a> Flaming and the Design of Social Software is Clay Shirky's latest essay on social software. It describes some interesting experiments and avenues for experimentation in reducing flaming in <a href="http://www.metafilter.com">social discourse software</a>. A prime example is <a href="http://www.bumplist.net/">Bumplist</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.36823 Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:11:47 -0800 clayshirky flaming shirky socialsoftware softwaredesign turbodog http://www.metafilter.com/12531/ Software projects are notorious for time and budget overruns (examples that come to mind include <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla</a> and the <a href="http://www.cds.caltech.edu/conferences/1997/vecs/tutorial/Examples/Cases/failures.htm">Denver Airport baggage system</a>). There are a large number of design methods, development processes, and programming methodologies that claim or hint at objective estimation of development schedules, project complexity, and programmer productivity. Unfortunately, <a href="http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Work/Softestim/kcsest.pdf">they're all bunk.</a><br><br> <i>"The creation of genuinely new software has far more in common with developing a new theory of physics than it does with producing cars or watches on an assembly line."</i><br><br> Programmers, try telling that one to your next customer. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.12531 Wed, 21 Nov 2001 06:19:50 -0800 costoverruns creation denverairport developmentprocess mozilla newsoftware programdesign programmers programming projects software softwaredesign timeoverruns lagado