Joel on Software

Write a software spec before doing a multi week project. ** Spec should be funny ** start top down. ** The goal of the spec is to make people to read it. ** Its your job to get people to read it.
Bugs should be fixed before adding new features.
Do estimate planning in excel.
If you are rotting in what you are doing - change something.
Spend time on the UI for a demo. People look at the UI not the algorithm.
Programmers who check in lot of bugs and then fix them are rewarded - so true.