Two Recent Projects

Introduction to Recent Research Projects

Some recent and ongoing research projects

Professor Bialek is interested in a broad set of problems that arise at the interface of physics and biology. His work is animated by the search for principles that might underlie the remarkable functional capabilities of living systems. A theorist, Bialek’s work ranges from abstract theoretical problems to the nitty gritty of experimental design and analysis; he has touched questions which ari...

A Tale of Two Projects

A Tale of Two Projects

I had a unique opportunity to experience and analyze the adoption of agile practices on two projects at a major car rental company which, although sharing many similarities including staff, professed commitment to agile process, architecture, and programming environment, experienced two drastically different outcomes. The first became bogged down and eventually went to production late, over-bud...

A Tale of Two Projects

The structure of an organization, the processes, and technologies used have a significant effect on software developments. The hypotheses explored here are that 1) an organization is not independent of process, and 2) process is not independent of technology. The two projects described remarkably display the same strong trends even though they were done in very different parts of the business, ...