Frage: What is the most often-overlooked risk in software engineering?

Incompetent programmers. There are estimates that the number of programmers needed in the U.S. exceeds 200,000. This is entirely misleading. It is not a quantity problem; we have a quality problem. One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year. Hiring more bad programmers will just increase our perceived need for them. If we had more good programmers, and could easily identify them, we would need fewer, not more.

Aus einem Interview mit David Parnas

I believe the iPhone will ultimately be judged a more important product than the original Apple Macintosh.

Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror

Ah, spring. What a wonderful time of year. A time when young programmers’ minds turn to thoughts of … neverending last-man-standing filibuster arguments about code formatting.

Naturally.

Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Die neunzig-neunzig Regel für Projektplanung