What Can You do Without?
I’ve touched on this before, but the next time someone says “what if a customer wants to do…” reply it just doesn’t matter. The hardest part of software isn’t figuring out what the system has to do - it’s determining what you can do without. When all else fails, keep it simple already (via Presentation Zen).
February 28th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
[…] I hate to admit how many of these I’ve seen over the years but there are some great messages in these posts. I’ve been very intrigued by the concept of constraints and what they can mean to a software organization (see Kathy’s post for more). One lesson of the bubble - growing REALLY big REALY fast with LOTS of cash isn’t the answer… I also think Guy’s advice about looking beyond the resume is important - how many great candidates to you think Google has flushed because they didn’t go to the right school? […]