If you’re looking for loopholes to save the day and get your project done or product out the door you better be prepared to keep looking. Because once you find one loophole, chances are you are going to need another. And once you find that one, you’ll then need another. Loopholes are cyclical implementations of constantly trying to find your way out of a problem of your own creation. The further down the loophole you…
You have a plan, you have it laid out, everything lines up and when it comes together it has the potential to be magical and transforming. And then a wrench gets thrown into that plan that tosses it out the window and it won’t come together as you had expected. You can look at it as an undoing of your plan, a failure to see what is now coming your way, you could even treat…
A feature is a collection of requirements that need to be delivered as part of a product. The requirements that form a feature can generally be broken down into stories that form the scenarios which are used by the feature and/or they can simply be the use cases for which a feature can be handled – both are very similar. In short, I like to think of it in this way – it’s a big…
But only if they are great. I love a good half-day meeting. If done right, it means business, it means direction and the measurement is simple. Were these 3 or 4 hours more valuable than a bunch of 1-hour meetings spread throughout the week? When done right, they should be. When done wrong, they will be seen as a waste of time that got you nowhere. The key to a great half-day session is to…
Is it still an error if no one sees it? Of course, it is. But whether it becomes a bug, well that’s up to you, the Developer, to decide how much you care to fix it.