I’m just a casual blogger. “Unfortunately” my clients demand a lot of time and attention! But every once in a while, I find that I just have to inform the world on important matters (and yes: importance is in the eye of the beholder). But in a recent project I once again found that there is so little support for the concept of money in the .NET programming languages that you wonder how Microsoft ever got so rich! I thought it was time to put my money where my mouth is and come up with an approach to handling money in C#. Since most of you readers, however, will be non-technical, I’ll spare you the details on this blog. That’s why I’ve put things up on my personal blog for all of you who like to work with the concept of money in your .NET applications.

Enjoy!

Pascal Lindelauf
plindelauf@yellowtail.nl

So why is it that so many software development projects still fail? I think, one very important aspect is the mismatch between the expectations a customer has and what the development team is planning to do or can do for the available/negotiated budget.

A great discussion around this topic can be found on the Scott Hanselman’s podcast, in which he interviews Ken Schwaber, who is co-founder of the Agile Alliance and the brains behind the agile software development process SCRUM. I can highly recommend this episode (even despite of the excessive use of the word “done”!).

Pascal Lindelauf
plindelauf@yellowtail.nl