It’s why the best way to capture requirements is to watch users. Spending an hour watching users is more informative than spending a day guessing what they want.
“In fact, this book might have been about Bill Campbell, college football legend, rather than Bill Campbell, Silicon Valley legend. And to learn more about him you might be doing a Yahoo or Bing search!)”
― Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
― Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
“Disaster often comes in the long run from suboptimal decisions in the short run”
― Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
― Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
“Buy versus build. The most radical possible solution for constructing software is not to construct it at all.”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
“A special case of shifting the burden, which recurs with alarming frequency, is eroding goals. Whenever there is a gap between our goals and our current situation there are two sets of pressures: to improve the situation and to lower our goals. How these pressures are dealt with is central to the discipline of personal mastery,”
― The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
― The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
“It is no longer sufficient that every programmer does what is right in their own eyes. Some disciplines, standards, and ethics will come. The decision before us today is whether we programmers will define them for ourselves or have them forced upon us by those who don’t know us.”
― Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics
― Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics
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