Software development the Gordon Ramsay way
I often enjoy watching Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and I’ve wondered if his approach could be used to illustrate common problems with software development.
- Know what your customers want and will pay for: i.e. Get the requirements right
- Lack of training and experience can be fatal
- Don’t expect kids with 6 months experience in only one language to implement large complex systems without significant supervision and mentoring
- There is no substitute for passion and hard work
- Success comes from the whole team working together
- Keep things as simple as possible
- Ensure equipment is clean, working and eliminate ‘bad smells’ from the materials
- Version control
- Build environment
- Refactor
- Test planning and infrastructure…
Some come on people, it’s not exactly fucking rocket science is it?
Update June 2008 — It appears I’m not the first to have made this connection, and again
