Monkigras Talk - Dante on Deciding What to Build
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- 4. Deceit and trickery Three-headed reptile/beast/humany thing Demons whipped by demons whipping humans Lake of boiling pitch Various diseases Fraud
- 5. ROADMAPS
- 6. Anything with both a timeline and features.
- 7. The answer can’t be “I don’t know.”
- 8. But that’s the only answer that isn’t a lie.
- 9. Erosion of trust between engineering and the rest of the business
- 10. Death march to meet release dates
- 13. Huge waste of everyone’s times
- 14. Inconstancy
- 15. Inconstancy: A Sphere of Heaven
- 16. Get rid of roadmaps
- 18. Make a document called “what we are working are” and give everyone edit access
- 19. Change the document when things change
- 20. Each person is responsible for the expectations they set
- 22. Two teams They fight each other Endlessly While carrying heavy weights Unresponsive Greed
- 23. You and your team aren’t going to accomplish what you think you are
- 24. You will do more things poorly
- 25. You will complete less things
- 26. You will do easy things instead of important things
- 27. The Wise
- 28. Take what you think you can do Divide by 4
- 29. Take the time you think you’ll do it in Times by 2
- 30. Make a list of what is important Make a list of what you’re doing Compare
- 31. Start with the important stuff
- 32. You will never do the things that aren’t important
- 34. Gigantic worm Vast vile slush produced by ceaseless foul Icy rain on top of everything Sightless and heedless of neighbors Gluttony
- 35. We have so many tools!
- 36. Look we even built our own tool!
- 37. We have to use lots of tools because nothing is perfect for us
- 38. We have to use lots of tools because subtle feature differences profoundly affect the way we work
- 39. We have to keep switching tools until we find something that works
- 41. The tools aren’t the problem You are
- 42. Get rid of all your tools
- 43. BUT WHAT ABOUT OUR BUG TRACKING SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED ACROSS 3 DIFFERENT TOOLS
- 44. Let the fear take you Delete it all
- 46. Not that bad, actually Green fields There’s even a castle “Inactive” sins Can’t attain better world Limbo
- 47. The state of being somewhere OK but you can’t get anywhere better
- 48. Technical debt
- 49. Justice
- 50. Let’s get really real about culture
- 51. I literally don’t care what kind of furniture you have
- 52. Culture is about what is more important than other things
- 53. Culture picks between alternate good things
- 55. Technical debt is a cultural problem
- 62. Swamp-like river Styx Wrathful fight each other Sullen lie beneath the water There’s also a marsh Anger
- 64. Not every opinion makes it
- 66. Loss of faith in the product
- 67. Earthly Love
- 68. Create a culture where it’s safe to talk about the product
- 69. Not everything counts as a feature request
- 70. Answer “why”
- 72. Feedback loop
- 73. Team exercises
- 74. Extend trust to people in your company who aren’t engineers or developers