Agile & Waterfall are two sides of the exact same Coin, and are equally good or bad.
Agile enthusiasts enjoy lambasting waterfall while espousing “Agile”, however the two techniques are exactly the same.
“Waterfall” is basically a Strategic method of attaining goals, and “Agile” is basically a Tactical method for achieving goals.
Both are equally limited; strategy without tactics is ineffective, and tactics without strategy are especially ineffective, especially over a longer term.
I found a great little list over at Freelance Switch.
http://freelanceswitch.com/humour/top-ten-signs-you-may-be-charging-too-little/
One of my favorites:
Number 6:
Clients pay your invoices in cash from their wallet.
Also check out:
http://freelanceswitch.com/humour/top-ten-signs-you-may-be-charging-too-much/
Number 9:
You’re still living off a job you finished in 2005.
I had been losing space on Drive C for awhile and it seemed odd to me as I rarely store things on Drive C, therefore the space should not be going down.
It ended up I had 255 GB (!) of files stacked up in the Windows Error Reporting Service queue in C:\programdata\microsoft\windows\wer\reportqueue
Definitely worth checking from time to time if you have apps that crash a lot and use Windows Vista
One thing that amazes me is that some startups still consider offshoring a cost saving option. Offshoring will almost certainly guarantee that your first implementation will be a failure and a huge amount of time and money will be wasted. The notion that some people still think offshoring will lead to cost savings means they simply haven’t tried offshoring before.
Even sillier is venture capital boards who encourage their young companies to offshore rather than hire US Based developers.
