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I deleted my older comment. For many "nice problems to have" I really disagree. A nice problem to have can be a real problem. It's nice you are in that situat

by IanCal 6y ago

I deleted my older comment. For many "nice problems to have" I really disagree. A nice problem to have can be a real problem. It's nice you are in that situation but it's still a problem. Your site offline because of demand is a nice problem to have. It's absolutely one to solve right now.

dragonwriter 6y ago
They are discussing nice problems to have relative to the status quo, so problems that are really only potential problems right now, but could become actual problems if good things happened. So I think even with the rewrite, your comment misses the mark. OTOH, I think that it's still a bit wrong to say don't solve them now: if you have a problem that is potentially a business-ending disaster that you won't have time to fix before it destroys your business if it manifests, it doesn't matter if the conditions which would cause it to manifest are otherwise an improvement over your status quo conditions. It still needs fixed before that happens. Otherwise, yeah, YAGNI applies.
- davnicwil 6y ago
  Yeah, your first paragraph is spot on. It's pretty much exactly what I was going to reply to IanCal. Instead I'll just +1 it. On your second paragraph, 100% agreed. This is really just a useful prioritization heuristic, not a rule, and in some cases other considerations should and will override it. It's mainly useful just to deliberately and routinely check that instinct to go deep on whatever you're working on when there's a lot of breadth to cover that's more important to get done first.
  - IanCal 6y ago
    Whether the problem is nice to have or not is entirely orthoganal to how important it is to solve. "Is this feature important, or a nice to have" is the question they want, not "is this problem nice to have?".
- IanCal 6y ago
  Nice problem to have is just the wrong phrase because it really means something orthoganal to "problems that I should solve now". > nice problems to have relative to the status quo, so problems that are really only potential problems right now, but could become actual problems if good things happened But that's not what this very common phrase means. What they want to say is "nice to haves".

by IanCal 6y ago

dragonwriter 6y ago

They are discussing nice problems to have relative to the status quo, so problems that are really only potential problems right now, but could become actual problems if good things happened. So I think even with the rewrite, your comment misses the mark. OTOH, I think that it's still a bit wrong to say don't solve them now: if you have a problem that is potentially a business-ending disaster that you won't have time to fix before it destroys your business if it manifests, it doesn't matter if the conditions which would cause it to manifest are otherwise an improvement over your status quo conditions. It still needs fixed before that happens. Otherwise, yeah, YAGNI applies.

davnicwil 6y ago
Yeah, your first paragraph is spot on. It's pretty much exactly what I was going to reply to IanCal. Instead I'll just +1 it. On your second paragraph, 100% agreed. This is really just a useful prioritization heuristic, not a rule, and in some cases other considerations should and will override it. It's mainly useful just to deliberately and routinely check that instinct to go deep on whatever you're working on when there's a lot of breadth to cover that's more important to get done first.
- IanCal 6y ago
  Whether the problem is nice to have or not is entirely orthoganal to how important it is to solve. "Is this feature important, or a nice to have" is the question they want, not "is this problem nice to have?".
IanCal 6y ago
Nice problem to have is just the wrong phrase because it really means something orthoganal to "problems that I should solve now". > nice problems to have relative to the status quo, so problems that are really only potential problems right now, but could become actual problems if good things happened But that's not what this very common phrase means. What they want to say is "nice to haves".