Over the years at work I have tried various solutions to task management: the mental to-do list, the simple paper notebook, the electronic PDA or Smartphone, to-do software or combinations of the above. I have until recently not found a solution that lets me list my tasks and record what I actually do each day.
My solution [...]
I have come to the realisation that the most experienced person in a group is not usually the person getting the most benefit in terms of skills or experience gained when working on a collaborative project. In fact the more experienced the individual the less benefit they stand to gain, the inverse is true of [...]
Knowing what is required to complete a programming task can be a black art, unless some thought is used. This can be observed by how frequently engineers complete 90% of a task to only then spend a further significant period of time finishing the last elusive 10% of the task. In the worst cases that [...]