Speed in Software Development

[Kenrim]

Hey guys,

Reading this article was quite interesting and I thought I should share it with you.

The founder of Targetprocess, Michael Dubakov, shares his thoughts on how to improve speed, quality and efficiency over the whole development process:
http://www.targetprocess.com/articles/speed-in-software-development.html

Our team does a few things to achieve this:

• We go out for an evening of paintball on Fridays with all colleagues who want to join (the company actually pays for it).
• From time to time we also participate in sport events like marathons as a team (nobody has to join, but everyone is welcome).
• We also tried to get people on a little free time robotic project, but in the end only a few were interested enough to sacrifice their time off.

I fully agree with Dubakov’s opinion about what a productive policy is for software development, but I am also interested in your thoughts about it. What possible actions could be taken/are you taking to improve productivity as well as conditions at your workspace?

Greetings
Kenrim

[Kulverstukas]

This is an old practice many large companies embrace when dealing with software related things. Shame that smaller companies don't usually get that/do that and are only about work.