Beliefs
Beliefs: The framework of things you hold to be true, and of which form the basis for all of your decisions. Here are some of mine. Which do you disagree with? Why? Workarounds are never a good thing....
View ArticleGreat Design
Fred Brooks in an interview with Wired: “Great design does not come from great processes; it comes from great designers.” This seems so natural and correct when talking about design. Applied to other...
View ArticleOn Documentation
George Dinwiddie: “Why is documentation so important to us? It’s because we’re used to using documents to carry our thoughts and ideas to other people, other places, other times. Documents are good at...
View ArticleWhat is fixed? Quality or Time?
Ken Schwaber was contemplating team dynamics: they were taking on too much work in hopes of meeting a time frame. The deadline (time) was fixed and the features (scope) were fixed, and the outcome was...
View ArticleDoubt
@rands had an interesting tweet: “Doubt is the best QA.” When you are doing quality-assurance testing, doubt is what will cause you to check (and recheck) all sorts of things. They may work just fine,...
View ArticleThings take the time they take
In an interview with Jerry Weinberg: “Things take the time they take, not the time you hope they will take. Pushing for half-time produces half-baked.” I absolutely agree! When you push for a project...
View ArticleCommunication as a Deliverable
One more post from Liz: “If the BA above was a piece of software, her users would be filing bug reports, working around her, and using her competitors instead.” In Who are your Users? she contemplates...
View ArticleDeliver Product, not Process
Jeff Patton has a good reminder: “The design process that supports delivering a great design document is not the same process that supports delivering a great product.”
View ArticleAvoid the Big Bang
Johanna on Incremental Progress Not Big Bang: “The problem is that the more big-bang you are, the less likely you will get everything you want. That’s because there’s a ton of work in progress, and...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Relate to Mr. Money Mustache
You know me. I like change and I like new shinny things. But I want to talk today about one area of my life that I have not been able to change: living frugally. Or at least, living frugally by Mr....
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