Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Programmers Anonymous

Some of those that I work with should sit at a session of Programmers Anonymous
  1. We admitted we were powerless over bugs - that our software has become unmanageable.
  2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves (Scrum Master) could restore us to sanity.
  3. Made a decision to turn our compiler and our debugger over to the care of Bill Gates as we understood Him.
  4. Made a searching and fearless code review of our software.
  5. Admitted to the Scrum Master, to ourselves, and to another programmers the exact nature of our bugs.
  6. We're entirely ready to have Regression Tests remove all these software defects.
  7. Humbly asked PC-Lint to illuminate our shortcomings.
  8. Made a list of all software projects we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. Made direct amends to users wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
  11. Sought through PC-Lint, Bounds Checker and Purify to improve our software.
  12. Having had an awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to programmers and to practice these principles in all our software development.
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