Month: September 2005

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Well, I suppose I am, given that my parents are both deceased.

But the main thing is that bluesey weariness. Not sure where it comes from. I ‘ve been spending a hell of a lot of energy over the past few weeks getting some software ready for my own company. I feel I now have something to show to people. Next problem is how to market it and turn it into a source of income.

I contacted an old acquaintance who I used to work with when I had the idea for the software. He’s well placed to help me find some people who might be interested in taking the software further into some kind of product. I can’t take it much further on my own efforts at the moment.

I’m working on the “elavator pitch” for the business behind the software so I can show it to him and see if he things it’ll be a runner.

Gotta run – need a reasonably early night for once. Watched “Darkma” late into the night on Friday and wish I hadn’t bothered. A real waste of time being awake. I fast forwarded quite a bit of it because I knew what was coming next.

Management Graphs

In response to this:

Very dubious about that management dashboard. Many years ago I worked for large company and they had this thing about drawing graphs of tests completed versus tests to be done. The managment, all ISO9001’d to the hilt, seemed to think that this gave them a metric of how complete the software was.

It didn’t. It gave them a measure of how many tests the developers thought necessary and had done. There was no neutral 3rd party testing department doing systems integeration testing from the specs. You need to make sure you’re measuring the right thing.

If you are writing formal unit test doco’s and so on, you may as well measure it, but you need to make sure you’re doing “proper” testing as well.