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> A lot of the ideas on the backlog are bad ideas, and you merely wrote them down to avoid hurting the feelings of the people who thought them up. I love how c
by debacle 14y ago
> A lot of the ideas on the backlog are bad ideas, and you merely wrote them down to avoid hurting the feelings of the people who thought them up.
I love how candid he can be sometimes. In my experience, this is true of about 30% of the backlog.
- ArbitraryLimits 14y agoIn my experience it doesn't really become clear whether the ideas are good or bad until they've been written down. For this reason I prefer a two-stage backlog, where the first stage is for definition and the second stage is for the ideas from the first stage that you decide you're actually going to do, just not right now.
- roc 14y agoYeah, I wouldn't get too hung up on the way Joel phrased it. Clearly ideas have to be considered to some reasonable degree, possibly run past a couple people from different departments, to see if there's anything there. The trick is just 1) not spending too much time on something after you realize it's anything less than solid 2) not moving them to the official "to do" list just to spare someone's feelings.