philwilson.org

I work in Higher Education in the UK.

Every day I see enterprisey systems which are awful, terrible, unfriendly, unusable, behemoths.

The market for each niche system is more or less a monopoly.

The market is prime for smaller, more agile, more user-friendly systems to come in and destroy them.

Please, somebody just kill off these dinosaurs.

What we’re trying to do at work:

• test-driven development
• pair programming
• implementation docs on the wiki
• code coverage stats (with cobertura) regularly generated via…
• continuous integration (at the moment with CruiseControl, soon to move to Bamboo)
• rapid software iterations (we suck at this right now)
• totally transparent group activity

I think we’re doing quite well on these things, but I wonder if it looks different from the outside?