http://www.chrisholmesonline.com/2007/09/11/selling-maintainability/ Adventures in .NET, Agile Development, parenting, music, football, movies, and more... Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:13:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.chrisholmesonline.com/2007/09/11/selling-maintainability/comment-page-1/#comment-24211 Caffeinated Coder >> Russell Ball » The September 2007 Caffeinated Codey Winners are… Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:51:48 +0000 http://www.chrisholmesonline.com/2007/09/11/selling-maintainability/#comment-24211 [...] For Best Way to Explain Software Maintainability to your Mom…Chris Holmes for his post Selling Maintainability. Chris makes a compelling argument that it is more helpful to think of software as a garden than a finished project in order to convey the reality and importance of maintainability to users. Finally, you can explain what the hell you do to your mom. [...] [...] For Best Way to Explain Software Maintainability to your Mom…Chris Holmes for his post Selling Maintainability. Chris makes a compelling argument that it is more helpful to think of software as a garden than a finished project in order to convey the reality and importance of maintainability to users. Finally, you can explain what the hell you do to your mom. [...]

]]> http://www.chrisholmesonline.com/2007/09/11/selling-maintainability/comment-page-1/#comment-16074 Joe F. Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:19:27 +0000 http://www.chrisholmesonline.com/2007/09/11/selling-maintainability/#comment-16074 Amen! THe idea of software like a garden is a great concept. It really helps me to further visualize some agile concepts. I agree that the business world is too stuck on their RAD designers (Visual Studio 2005 being a major one). If customers or web development companies learned to adopt more agile frameworks (agile as in adaptable to changing requirements), they would see a much quicker turn around on their projects, and in return, much happier customers. Amen! THe idea of software like a garden is a great concept. It really helps me to further visualize some agile concepts. I agree that the business world is too stuck on their RAD designers (Visual Studio 2005 being a major one). If customers or web development companies learned to adopt more agile frameworks (agile as in adaptable to changing requirements), they would see a much quicker turn around on their projects, and in return, much happier customers.

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