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Risk-First Software Development(riskfirst.org)
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Maybe this is just an unassailable difficulty and not an anti-goal as described here, but getting your SaaS idea past ‘the algorithm’ and noticed by an unforgiving world seems to me the biggest problem everyone faces. I guess we live in a w
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3D Programming(riskfirst.org)
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Risk-First Software Development(riskfirst.org)
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Part two of a series on the complexity of estimating in software development, exploring the conceit of estimating the time to move a kitchen were it to contain some cabinets, which themselves might contain other cabinets, and so on. (An ide
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Show HN: Kitchen Cabinet Estimates(riskfirst.org)
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Part one of a series I am writing exploring why we have difficulties estimating. This episode starts easy with extrapolation, and adds the confounding factors from there. Would love some feedback!
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Estimating: Fill the Bucket(riskfirst.org)
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It can be a pain worrying about "what's the worst thing that can happen?" all the time. Maybe even psychologically counter-productive! But surely, it's worth at least considering. The argument here is that the develop
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The Purpose of the Development Team(riskfirst.org)
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Hi HN, This is the third part in a series of articles in my “Risk-First” (focused on addressing the concept of Risk in Software Development). It’s looking at the question of, to what extent is debugging a series of gambles? In looking for a
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Debugging Bets(riskfirst.org)
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This is one I find useful: https://riskfirst.org/Timed-Thinking
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It seems to me that the buy-in isn’t so much about hype-cycles, but just wanting to say the right things to get developers to sign on and work. So many things in life are about pulling the wool over the eyes of the young and idealistic. Agi
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Post-Agile: A Summary(riskfirst.org)
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Why is microservices so much more popular right now than, say, distributed processing via the actor model? It feels like splitting things up with HTTP boundaries is a lot of work, less flexible and precludes a lot of re-use. Is it just be
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
Actually I don’t really understand why all the HN posts on agile just devolve into a discussion about the difficulty of estimating. Surely there’s more to it than that?
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
I think this comes down to the idea that estimates are really for coordination. At least, I think that’s the best reason for using estimates. I wrote something about this here: https://riskfirst.org/Estimates
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Coding Bets(riskfirst.org)
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This sounds about right. Also it feels like as a paradigm shift it’s not so far from Conway’s Law already
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So rare that perhaps the meaning of the word has changed irrevocably? Disclosure masquerading as a plug: I’m writing this at the moment- https://riskfirst.org
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The Purpose of the Development Team(riskfirst.org)
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Our internal model of the world is always simpler than the world itself (otherwise it wouldn't be a model). This whole article is just saying "Dear client, here's why your model is insufficient". Which is a much nicer em
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
As a contract worker, I feel I have to be quite careful about this. - Ideally, I do work that can go on my public website, but working in Investment Banking, that doesn't happen a huge amount. - Next, I look for work I can _at least_ p
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by bobm_kite9 7y ago
I’ve seen this before. It’s not common practice as far as I can see but it does happen. I blogged about it here as ‘discounting the future to zero’ https://riskfirst.org/Evaluating-Risk#discounting-the-future... Although i
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The Purpose of a Development Team(riskfirst.org)
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Risk-First Software Development(github.com)
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Risk-First Software Development: A Simple Scenario(riskfirst.org)
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by bobm_kite9 8y ago
Author here, In Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck talks about how software development is all about balancing risk. I’ve arrived at the same conclusion, and have been exploring this on in the Risk-First github project, which contains
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Risk-First Software Development: A Quick Summary(riskfirst.org)
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