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Nigel Cheshire
Nigel Cheshire is CEO of Enerjy Software, a division of Teamstudio Inc. He oversees product strategy and has been driving the company's growth since he founded it in 1996. Prior to founding Teamstudio, Inc., Nigel was co-founder and principal of Ives & Company, a CRM solutions consultancy. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Teesside, England. |
iPhone - Service as
Important as Software
Quality By Nigel Cheshire The iPhone story that
interested me the most
though, was Bubba
Murarka's tale of his
service experience with
Apple. Here's someone who
clearly likes the
product, but the whole
experience is let down by
the support model. I had
a similar experience when
I returned ... Oct. 7, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 10,308 Replies: 1 | Outage at All-the-Rage
Social Networking Site
Facebook By Nigel Cheshire From the many reports of
software glitches this
week, (including an
outage at all-the-rage
social networking site
Facebook), I decided to
focus on a couple of
interesting (to me,
anyway) stories that have
one thing in common:
speed. The world of
Formula One racing... Aug. 14, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 8,127 Replies: 1 | Speaking at Real-World
Java Seminar Next Week By Nigel Cheshire I'll be speaking at
SYS-CON's Real-World Java
One-Day Seminar in New
York City next Monday,
August 13. Despite the
fact that it's August, it
looks like they have
lined up an interesting
panel of speakers for the
day, including sessions
by Yakov Fain on using
Flex ... Aug. 8, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 9,189 Replies: 1 | SYS-CON.TV Posted an
Interview That Roger
Strukhoff Did with Me at
JavaOne By Nigel Cheshire  SYS-CON.TV just posted an
interview that Roger
Strukhoff did with me at
JavaOne last month. While
there's not too much you
can say about software
quality in 9 or 10
minutes, I did drop a few
hints about what we are
working on here at
Enerjy, which we are
pretty ex... Jun. 14, 2007 01:15 PM Reads: 8,261 Replies: 1 | Eclipse and Enterprise
Open Source Plug Ins For
Better Software By Nigel Cheshire The folks at Stelligent
entered the brave new
world of vidcasting with
an interview with Levent
Gurses, previewing his
presentation at the
Better Software
Conference. Levent talks
about the key Eclipse
plug-ins that help track
code quality metrics. In
particular, ... Jun. 12, 2007 01:30 PM Reads: 10,013 Replies: 1 | Software More an Art Than
a Science? By Nigel Cheshire Infoworld ran a story
yesterday on comments
made by Microsoft's Chief
Research and Strategy
Officer, Craig Mundie.
'The problem is,' said
Mundie, 'that software
development is an
important endeavor but it
has not matured as an
engineering process, it's
still an ar... Jun. 9, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 7,662 Replies: 2 | "Kitchen Client" Version
of Windows By Nigel Cheshire A quick thought for a
Friday afternoon. Mary Jo
Foley reports at ZDNet
that Microsoft is
starting work on the
Kitchen Client version of
windows. Among the
features Microsoft is
planning to make part of
its forthcoming kitchen
computing environment are
a family cal... Jun. 8, 2007 07:30 PM Reads: 6,367 Replies: 1 | No Silver Bullets By Nigel Cheshire David Seruyange pointed
me to a great
presentation by Yahoo!
Javascript Architect
Douglas Crockford on
software quality. At
least, 'Quality' is the
title of the
presentation, but in fact
Crockford gives a
wonderful history lesson,
showing how we got to
where we ... Jun. 2, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 6,442 Replies: 1 | Thinking About Pair
Programming? By Nigel Cheshire When I worked for IBM,
back at the start of the
e-business phenomenon,
the management of our
group made a very
uncharacteristic decision
for the time (and as it
turned out, a very wise
decision). None of the
e-business technical
staff went on-site; all
work was pe... May. 30, 2007 02:30 PM Reads: 9,077 Replies: 1 | Software Quality and the
Broken Windows Theory By Nigel Cheshire 'Evidence of decay (large
defect backlogs, no
documentation, no code
reviews) remains in the
system for a reasonably
long period of time.
Quality oriented
engineers who work on the
project feel more
vulnerable and begin to
withdraw. They become
less willing to int... May. 29, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 7,443 Replies: 1 | Digg Contest Sparks
Visualization Ideas By Nigel Cheshire  Having a particular
interest in data
visualization (more on
how that relates to what
we are doing here later),
I was browsing around the
Digg API visualization
contest today. The many
different approaches to
building a meaningful
representation of a
dynamic data s... May. 29, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 5,830 Replies: 1 | Never Mind the Quality,
Feel the Width! By Nigel Cheshire  Never Mind the Quality,
Feel the Width' was the
title of a British TV
sitcom in the late 60's
(yes, I really am that
old), which has nothing
to do with Java software
development. Or does it?
The more I talk to people
about the issue of Java
software quality, the
m... May. 18, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 7,545 | Quality Metrics and the
Personal Software Process By Nigel Cheshire I was in a meeting with a
customer earlier this
week, discussing some of
the changes that we see
in development teams that
start a metrics program
and begin to measure the
results. I used the
phrase 'change in the
culture and behaviors' of
development. In most
cas... May. 17, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 6,177 | JavaOne - TDD Controversy By Nigel Cheshire The obvious thing I see
here is an education
issue. TDD is a big topic
with plenty of reference
material available on the
web, and people interpret
different parts of it in
different ways. Sure,
some people may have had
bad experiences with TDD
depending on the cult... May. 16, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 12,937 Replies: 7 | Can You Manage What You
Can't Measure? By Nigel Cheshire The argument against the
claim is that as a
species, we manage things
that we don't measure all
the time. You don't need
to measure every hair on
your head, for example,
to know that you need a
hair cut. The flip side
of the argument says
that, in fact, you are
ap... May. 15, 2007 05:00 PM Reads: 6,435 Replies: 1 | Poka-Yoke and Better
Software By Nigel Cheshire Gojko Adzic has a great
post today on the
application of the
'Poka-Yoke' principle to
software development. I'd
bever heard of Poka-Yoke
before, but it looks like
it's another application
of a Japanese
manufacturing technique
to software development.
Personally, I... May. 11, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 7,006 Replies: 1 | JavaOne - JavaFX abuzz By Nigel Cheshire I'm at JavaOne this week,
where the talk from Sun
is all about mobile, or
JavaFX and JavaFX Script.
I'm not sure the world
needs another scripting
language, but then what
do I know? I know it's a
bit off-topic, but the
thing that struck me
about JavaOne this year
... May. 9, 2007 08:15 PM Reads: 13,930 Replies: 1 | Change Is Good! By Nigel Cheshire  In an article in the
October edition of the
FTP Webzine 'Upside'
Peter Varhol laments the
trend toward
per-developer metrics in
the software development
process. 'Individual
developer data is stored
and available to be
manipulated in less than
honorable ways,' he ... Jan. 21, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 13,429 Replies: 1 | How Good Is Good Enough? By Nigel Cheshire  Intellectually everyone
understands that
improving code quality is
a good thing. After all,
we know bad quality when
we see it. (Anyone old
enough can cast his or
her mind back to the late
'80s and Microsoft Word
for Windows 1.0.) But we
also know that there
comes... Dec. 11, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 14,498 Replies: 1 | Why Coding Standards? By Nigel Cheshire Show me code written by
ten developers and I'll
show you ten different
coding styles. So why try
to develop and enforce
coding standards? Who
cares what a program
looks like as long as it
works Jun. 28, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 15,996 | Java Development Managers
Stress the Need to
Improve Software Quality By Nigel Cheshire  We've all experienced it
- the 'get it out the
door' mentality that
seems to be the driving
force behind many
software application
deliveries - a prime
example of the software
industry's immaturity
that favors completion
over quality, and an end
user's preference ... May. 8, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 16,975 Replies: 1 | Using Java Development
Tools to Enforce Best
Practices By Nigel Cheshire In the conclusion of a
two-part series, Enerjy
Software CEO Nigel
Cheshire outlines source
code control systems,
static code checking
software, testing
frameworks, and coverage
tools. Mar. 1, 2006 04:45 PM Reads: 11,535 Replies: 2 | Using Java Tools to
Enforce Best Practices By Nigel Cheshire Bad code abounds, and the
cost to fix it is
expensive. A 2002 federal
study found that software
errors and bugs in code
cost the U.S. economy
nearly $60 billion a
year. And a study
conducted by The Standish
Group reports a 27-month
backlog on end-user
requests for... Jan. 30, 2006 04:30 PM Reads: 14,442 Replies: 1 |
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