As you, dear readers know, I have strong opinions on vestigial features in products. In the same way, I’m a strong believer in dumping and changing features that customers don’t care about: maintaining features that few people use is a night-mare and massive money-suck.
Somewhat counter-intutivly, then, I enjoyed this part of a longer quote from […]
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One of Steve’s recent posts reminded me of a question I’ve been kicking around for the past few days: not too many companies seem to have evangelist roles; why is that?
Sun, of course, has made that an official role, and Microsoft does as well, esp. in a psuedo-official way with passionate their bloggers and fans/”fans” […]
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Our man Klobe had a link to BarCampAustin. It’s Saturday, March 11th, 2006.
I’ve never been to a foo/bar/baz camp, so I figure with one in my town, I outta check this one out full-bore.
I proposed the session “Agile in the Real World: Wild Success, Terrible Failure, and Endless Yelling,” which I know many of you, […]
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Waterfall is plan driven — fixed requirements, estimated time and resources.
Agile is value driven — fixed time and resources, prioritized features.
“Would you rather have 100% of your features 80% complete or 80% of your features 100% complete?”
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An unbending tenant of eXtreme Programming is YAGNI, “you aren’t gonna need it.” As Ron Jeffries says:
YAGNI says, it never makes sense for a developer to implement things that aren’t asked for. It is always an explicit waste of the company’s money. It does not save money over doing the same thing later: the cost […]
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