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New to Python -- How to manage architecture choices

Date Tue 05 October 2021 Tags #python / architecture / community / management

This is a problem folks new to Python have, and sometimes can't articulate that they have it.

They don't know which package is the "right" one to use. Tox vs. Nox. Click vs. Argparse vs. getopts? What's the "best" choice?

  • Response 1. The whole Python ecosystem is chaos and the …
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BOSSIE Awards

Date Tue 13 September 2011 Tags management / python

web2py wins an award -- cool. I really like Django. But...

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Sustaining Innovation or Placating Management

Date Tue 14 September 2010 Tags innovation / management

Computerworld, July 26, 2010 cover story was "Sustaining Innovation". The magazine was chock-full of thoughts on innovation.

Much of it was good, but some of it is just appeasement to management types who are focused on cost and schedule.

"Establish processes and ownership. Organizations should have a process for taking …
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FW: Eight Things Business Hates About IT

Date Tue 12 January 2010 Tags management / innovation / agile

Eight Things Business Hates About IT. Plus eight things IT hates about business.

I suppose.

While there are 8 things identified, they seem to boil down to 2 things to fix: Replace bureaucratic with Agile; replace Keep The Lights On Management with any other way of budgeting.

While Agility is …

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ROI - Buzzword Bingo

Date Tue 13 January 2009 Tags roi / management / investment / innovation

Here's the article, "The New Focus Group: The Collective ".

The point is that simplistic Return on Investment misses the point. The point is that marketing models aren't simple linear relationships between promotional dollars and sales.

I was all excited about the value of innovation and the source of innovation .

The …

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Python 3.0

Date Sat 08 November 2008 Tags Python 3 / management / risks / conversion

The SD Times article (Python 3.0 won't be compatible... ) was very helpful -- crisp, to the point, management-friendly coverage. [For some additional thoughts, see the Python 3.0 and Language Evolution question on Stackoverflow.]

This applied to what we're building at work. Here's the best part. When I started on …

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Lean Projects — Not Deficient Projects

Date Tue 02 September 2008 Tags architecture / software design / complexity / management / agile

Here's a great quote from a reader regarding Big Plan for Change : "[the advice] doesn't account for project tracking requirements of the organization. Budgeting. Metrics. Hiring. Documenting. Transitioning to new staff."

Good point. Let's look at these in a little bit of depth. We'll cover the three management practices first …

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The Big Plan For Change™ -- Since it never works, what's the alternative?

Date Tue 02 September 2008 Tags architecture / software design / complexity / management

See Fast, but Slowly . ComputerWorld, Frankly Speaking, August 25, 2008, by Frank Hayes.

This is a very cool restatement of some essential Agile principles.

Sure, we can train and plan -- and we should. But there are too many unknowns to train and plan for everything. A slow ramp-up lets us …

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The Technology Obsession

Date Sat 16 August 2008 Tags architecture / software design / complexity / management

An old professor of mine writes "There are lots of pathological propensities at work ..., "Gee, we've got a way to use the computer to ..." In short, automation for the sake of automation."

See jbox.dk Quotations on Simplicity . The fundamental principle is that simplicity is really important. But how do …

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The Half-Truth About Consultants

Date Sun 20 April 2008 Tags architecture / software design / management

Some of Cringley's The Truth About IT Consultants is good stuff. His Type "A" and Type "C" are both stories of consultants who are brought in because they have specific skills. In the "A" case, it's a technical skill, and in the "C" case it's project management.

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