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Platitudes Of Doom
The process looks meandering a lot of the time. Do I also strive for productivity? Yes, but it is a delicate balance, and I think the pitfall is to force something to happen that must happ en on its own . Observing the professional investment world writ large, its preoccupation with efficiency, predictability, and standardization is striking: indus... See more
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How can you avoid building a Soviet-style product? Make sure your project plan includes tasks explicitly focused on nonfunctional requirements. That sounds easy, but consider that most Soviet-style systems got that way because nonfunctional qualities were simply ignored.
Steve McMenamin • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (Dorset House eBooks)
Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more procedures, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly.
When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can ... See more
When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can ... See more
Steph Ango • What Can We Remove?
