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by tchaffee 6y ago
MDN, Firefox (voice search would be nice), and anything that is a replacement for Google products.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Over 60% of software projects go over budget, and often by a lot. What's unprofessional is giving estimates for anything that is not small enough to get done in a couple of weeks. You should also understand why someone asks for estimat
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> But lack of alignment is known to be an issue with both flat AND time-based fees. Agreed. Agile only puts you in a more flexible relationship. It does not fix every alignment issue. For that you need to be more creative with the contra
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by tchaffee 6y ago
So one data point. Sounds like they didn't differentiate themselves well enough from the fixed bid contract. The great thing about fixed price per sprint is they have to impress you with progress every sprint or they risk losing the jo
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Could you give some sources where plan means something different in the context of software development methodologies (the topic in question) and that most people in software engineering use that different meaning? More importantly, is ther
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by tchaffee 6y ago
That's a good point. I think we know enough about building things that fly now and we can do it quickly and cheaply enough that we can build prototypes that fail, and iterate until we get it right. I could be wrong, but I think that wa
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> I agree, but I think the constraints are doing all the work in your statement Yep. > I've just been in the position many times in my own career where product managers are pushing to get something, anything out there so they can
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> how do you know if there is any change if you didn't start with a plan? Easy. The designs change. The requirements change. A plan is not a design. A plan is not the requirements. A plan is a step by step description of how you are
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Because they aren't good at selling agile. Why do people ask for estimates or fixed bids? It's to manage risk. And how often do projects not go over estimated budget? Even fixed bids are poor at managing risk. Lots of consulting c
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by tchaffee 6y ago
The vast majority of invented products - software or not - are complete market failures. No one wants to use them no matter how well engineered they are. When we talk about building an MVP (minimum viable product), the V part is very import
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Not in my experience. If you are agile, you can fix the architecture as needed. You end up with poorly architected code by deciding to continue building on top of something when it is no longer suited to purpose. That can also happen as a r
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Agile is the wrong model for building something that must fly or you die. The opposite of much of the software we build where a quick prototype in front of real users gives you far better information than any amount of internal brainstormin
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It's not a warning sign. The biggest new Chinese companies are also software companies. The barriers to entry in manufacturing are fairly high and the opportunity for becoming a Facebook by making widgets is almost non-existent which i
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Manucturing is still a huge employer in the US.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
That's not such a relevant number because plenty of those US jobs went to automation, not to China. There are still over 12 million manufacturing jobs in the US. About 8% of all US jobs which is a significant chunk. Easily disapproving
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by tchaffee 6y ago
They are not. In 2016 China produced about $4.566 trillion in manufactured goods. Coming in 2nd place, in 2016 the U.S produced about $3.602 trillion in manufactured goods.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
You made the claim that "there aren't enough CEOs to make any sort of difference" so the burden of proof is on you to back up that claim. Lacking any evidence to back up your claim, the convo can end here or you can have the
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Source? Because each CEO affects many people. So it sounds like you just made that up. Meanwhile, I provided a source that shows higher crime rates when there are higher wage gaps. Where are those wage gaps coming from? Please provide sourc
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by tchaffee 6y ago
You could try this response: treating every every mental health issue as a hallucination is similar to treating every medical issue as a heart attack. As an example, treating depression as if it were the same as hearing voices would hurt th
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Making a claim about the culture one is familiar with does not exclude that the same might be true in other cultures.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Shareholders do not expect companies to be perfect. One of the reasons to be part owner is to push for improvements and to have influence. You are wrong about detriments to society, and a simple search would have saved you. Just as one exam
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by tchaffee 6y ago
The shareholders do not all agree. Some of us want to see wage gaps narrowed. Some of us have been looking at how companies impact all stakeholders, including the local community. Sustainability is no longer a strange word. The average empl
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> you should probably get paid 0 that year. Most CEOs in the USA can demand contracts that give them a massive golden umbrella, fail or not. Why would any CEO accept less than that? But to answer the harder question, I don't think a
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by tchaffee 6y ago
You would make more in Denmark than in the US, and your CEO would make far less. Your one data point fails pretty quickly.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Many CEOs who aren't famous because they failed still got paid at that 200x rate.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I consider AWS' almost indecipherable usage billing to be shady. I very much doubt I'm alone. It's next to impossible to predict your AWS usage bill for anything beyond a very basic setup. What's annoying is the solution
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by tchaffee 6y ago
There is no expectation that customers be professional. There is no profession, no salary, and no stakeholders. The failure here is almost all with the one professional involved: the CEO.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Plenty of good customers take a grievance to social media immediately. We are emotional animals. If you are using angry tweets as your signal for what makes a bad customer, you're going to lose a lot of good customers to the competitio
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It's a simple yes or no question if you want to handle it in onboarding. And loads of successful companies have tiered plans with hard limits.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Why was he a bad customer? He was frustrated. And he exaggerated what he was frustrated about. That could have lead to an insightful conversation that improved the product. Don't make the mistake of thinking every frustrated customer i

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