Format Book / Offline paper "At Big Tech, senior-and-above promotions commonly involve a widening impact radius and increasingly complex problems." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Command Line Source title The Software Engineer's Guidebook Source authors Gergely Orosz Source year 2023 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "Gear Acquisition Syndrome is an established term for a cultural pattern of repeatedly acquiring musical equipment." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Command Line Source title “Gear Acquisition Syndrome”: A Survey of Electric Guitar Players Source authors Jan-Peter Herbst Source year 2017 Confidence high Importance low
Format Web Page "Steven Sinofsky recalls that The Mythical Man-Month was standard reading for Microsoft software engineers, yet executives still asked whether assigning more resources could speed constrained cross-group projects." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Fast, Cheap, and Barely Working Source title 066. Killing a Killer Feature In Outlook, Again Source authors Steven Sinofsky Source year 2022 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Crosby’s “quality is free” argument is that failures and nonconformance create avoidable costs, so investing in prevention and conformance can pay for itself." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Fast, Cheap, and Barely Working Source title Quality Resources | ASQ Source authors ASQ Source year 2013 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Philip B. Crosby defined quality as conformance to requirements and promoted prevention and zero defects as core quality-management principles." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Fast, Cheap, and Barely Working Source title ASQ: About: Philip Crosby | ASQ Source authors ASQ Source year 2013 Confidence high Importance high
Format Book / Offline paper "DeMarco and Lister argue that builders’ self-esteem is closely connected to the quality of the products they build." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Fast, Cheap, and Barely Working Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister Source year 2013 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Book / Offline paper "DeMarco and Lister argue that quality beyond what the end user requires can be a means to higher productivity." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Fast, Cheap, and Barely Working Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister Source year 2013 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "Technical debt can reduce developer morale and productivity, while active technical-debt management can improve both." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Fast, Cheap, and Barely Working Source title The influence of Technical Debt on software developer morale Source authors Terese Besker; Hadi Ghanbari; Antonio Martini; Jan Bosch Source year 2020 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "A longitudinal replication study found that developers reported wasting an average of 23 percent of their working time because of technical debt." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Fast, Cheap, and Barely Working Source title Software Developer Productivity Loss Due to Technical Debt - A replication and extension study examining developers’ development work Source authors Terese Besker; Antonio Martini; Jan Bosch Source year 2019 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "The Therac-25 accidents involved interacting software, safety-engineering, and organizational failures rather than a single isolated defect." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Fast, Cheap, and Barely Working Source title An investigation of the Therac-25 accidents Source authors Nancy G. Leveson; Clark S. Turner Source year 1992 Confidence high Importance high
