Joel on Software - Set Your Priorities:
"I should have realized that "important" is not a binary thing, it's an analog thing. There are all kinds of different shades of important, and if you try to do everything, you'll never get anything done.
So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now
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keeping your desk clean is actually probably a sign that you're not being effective.
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Don't do features based on what the sales force has inadvertently promised a single customer, and don't do unimportant-slash-fun features first because "you're going to have to do them eventually anyway."
October 12, 2005
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i frå same tekst:
"there's nothing wrong with consultingware; it's a very comfortable slope to slip down, but it's just not as profitable as shrinkwrap software.
Shrinkwrap is the take-it-or-leave it model of software development. You develop software, wrap it in plastic, and customers either buy it, or they don't. They don't offer to buy it if you implement just one more feature. They don't call you up and negotiate features.
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Custom development is that murky world where a customer tells you what to build, and you say, "are you sure?" and they say yes, and you make an absolutely beautiful spec, and say, "is this what you want?" and they say yes, and you make them sign the spec in indelible ink, nay, blood, and they do, and then you build that thing they signed off on, promptly, precisely and exactly, and they see it and they are horrified and shocked, and you spend the rest of the week reading up on whether your E&O insurance is going to cover the legal fees for the lawsuit you've gotten yourself into or merely the settlement cost. Or, if you're really lucky, the customer will smile wanly and put your code in a drawer and never use it again and never call you back.
Somewhere in the middle is consultingware, where you pretend to be doing shrinkwrap while really doing custom development."
skjønar vitsen med å pusha oss nærare shrinkwrap software...
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