Research Seminar - May 02, 2003

Software developers as creatives:
Experience and practice of short term, demanding software engineering
or "What I did in NYC"

Abstract:

There are several industries that deal with knowledge production with similar tight time, money and resource constraints as typical software engineering projects. The author informally relates (more like show and tell than a CS seminar!) his experiences in managing a small software project comparing software engineering philosophies and management to those of creative staff in commercial music, graphic design, architecture and film production. Some experiences related include the use of open source, choice of programming languages and development systems, collaboration approaches, telecommuting programmers, and where to get Sushi at 4am.