Archive for August, 2009

Software Postmortems are Software Management

August 13th, 2009

Skeletal_Sections

So having been careful about requirements, prototyping iteratively, testing with real users early on and getting it out the door quickly, what now?  No doubt users are calling, or emailing questions, feature suggestions, raves, rants and some, hopefully occasional, hate mail.  There are some naysayers at this point hollering that it went out the door too soon.  Be calm…

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Never Design Top Down

August 5th, 2009

bottom-up

I just off the phone with an old High School chum.  We got to talking about Bottom-Up Thinking as a way to set direction when a situation is unclear or changing too quickly. It was in the context of career, so I gave a lot of unsolicited advice … ‘natch.

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