I see a common pattern with startups and teams I’ve advised or been a part of. I call it the Software Over-specification Death Spiral, or SODS for short. It looks like this: Product Manager (or CEO, Engineering Manager, etc) drafts up some sort of specifications or requirements for a new feature or product. Product ManagerContinue reading “The Software Over-specification Death Spiral”
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Software as a Liability
On many teams I’ve advised or been a part of, code is generally viewed as an asset. Only some code, the “bad code”, is considered technical debt. The highest-performing teams, however, viewed things differently. For them, all code is technical debt on some level. Programming vs. Software Engineering Software requires two broad classes of effort. There isContinue reading “Software as a Liability”
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