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Original Post: Writing good software. Having good teams.
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Graham Glass, a fellow brit who I admire, is writing about his experiences writing good software.
It is interesting to see how his software changed from a compiler for the COMAL language, to portable C++ libraries, to Java libraries, to web/grid services platforms. Tells you a lot about the changing times.
I also really liked his words on the generalities of his successful projects:
In general, these products received favorable reviews, were well received by the developer community, and some of them (like JGL and Voyager) won several awards. The development of the products had several common characteristics that I will write about in detail in future parts of this series. In the meantime, here are some of the highlights:
Small teams, ranging from 1 to 10 people
Top-notch developers
Highly iterative development cycle
High quality code and documentation
Small, compact code
Easy to use
First versions were available as beta code quite early in the development cycle
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