Los 7 Hábitos de los Desarrolladores Altamente Efectivos

En el blog de Jonh W Powell se encuentra un ensayo acerca de la productividad de un ingeniero de software.

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with principles to which the success is tied. This advice comes from Steven Covey in his best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Según Powell estos son los 7 hábitos:

Programación e Historia

En una diapositiva de una presentación de Steve Jobs en 1992 se muestra el estudio de Booz-Allen acerca de NeXTSTEP:

• Took 100+ senior programmers and trained them on NeXTSTEP then asked them to write the same app on both NeXT and their previous system.
• First application written was written 2 – 5 times faster.
• Savings were 90%
• 83% less lines of code in the NeXTSTEP version
• 82% said NeXTstep was better in ALL categories
• It isn’t faster to code on NeXTSTEP; you just have to write less of it. The revolution is “getting rid of software”.

Suponiendo, sin conceder que el estudio sea preciso, ¿Qué ambiente actual de desarrollo ofrecería tales beneficios? ¿Por qué Sun no aprendió de ambientes integrales como NeXTSTEP para la plataforma Java?