Confirmation bias in software engineering

The Primary auditory cortex is highlighted in magenta, and has been known to interact with all areas highlighted on this neural map.

Of all the limits on our cognition, confirmation bias is perhaps the ugliest. Confirmation bias is hard to get to grip with as it leads us to consider even contradictory evidence as confirmatory. Does confirmation bias affect even software professionals? Of course it does, we are all in the grip…

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What I learned from chopping wood

A lumberjack is chopping wood.

When I moved to a farm, three years ago, I thought I would be able to take what I had learned from consulting and agile and apply it to farming. I soon found out that I was wrong. The true lessons were not in what I could re-apply in farming…

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Software Effort Estimation Problems

Estimation is important for software developers. Software effort estimation problems are part of their daily lives.

Software effort estimation is an important part of the daily lives of many software professionals. I have joined the #noestimates debate on Twitter because there is a lot to learn from a discussion on estimates. I’m not ready to fully abandon estimates but I am interested in discussing where, when…

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