Tag Archives: risk management

25 Thoughts on Agile Development

2 Sep

When I worked for the State of Wisconsin (as a contractor), I had many great conversations with Mark and Jon about agile software development.

One day I wrote down a list of 25 thoughts on risk management and testing.  Eventually I’ll weave these ideas into articles, but for now, just a <ul>

* Everyone contributes risks

* No risk exists without probability and impact

* No impact is infinite

* All impacts are measurable

* Risks drive level of design

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Login forms are broken in ruby on rails

14 Aug

It isn’t just Ruby on Rails login forms that are broken. The majority of login forms on the internet are fundamentally broken.

In what appears to be some form of risk management strategy, these login forms introduce a different risk to the websites that use the default behaviors – in RoR sites, this is often either AuthLogic or RestfulAuthentication.

Both are broken in a big way.

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Passwords gone wild

22 Mar

Programmers are knuckleheads.

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