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Reaction versus anticipation

Friday, November 21, 2008

It is not enough to react quickly to meet your customers feedback as a software engineer, if you truely want to be an excellent engineer you need to anticipate their needs (to an extent).   This does not mean creating applications that are so generic that they can meet any user need: as such systems [...]

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Estimation and self delusion

Friday, September 12, 2008

Here is an interesting exercise for you to try next time your estimating something e.g, task duration.

Write down your initial off the cuff estimation, without thinking about the estimation in any detail.
Think some more about the task and how long it could take if everything went wrong (within reason e.g, discounting riots, natural disasters, coups [...]

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