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It's amazing to me the lengths organizations will go to avoid the one thing that actually works: hiring a small team of really good developers, paying them a lo
by carsongross 11y ago
It's amazing to me the lengths organizations will go to avoid the one thing that actually works: hiring a small team of really good developers, paying them a lot of money and giving them hard ship date.
- skylan_q 11y agoBut if you have a few people develop and ship a product, what's everyone else going to do besides look stupid?
- rev_bird 11y agoThat seems like laissez-faire waterfall to me. The problem with the "hard ship date" is that it usually comes with a set of expectations for what is ready on that date: If you need software X on July 1, what happens when software Y becomes more necessary on April 15?
- carsongross 11y agoA hard ship date and flexible requirements is the way to do it: you force the issue and require your (great) developers to immanentize the software. It clarifies the mind and, assuming you didn't start off with absurd goals anyway, you get most of what you want. Most importantly, it gets you to ship.
- matthewmacleod 11y agoI've seen that go completely balls-up in several cases. The thing is, even really good developers can struggle to define what a complete and working system looks like.