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- 1. Set yourself up for FAILURE
- 3. Building the right thing
- 4. The right thing ™
- 5. Right thing Wrong thing
- 6. Right thing Wrong thing
- 8. "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." Cunningham’s law
- 10. “Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions... A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific” Karl Popper
- 12. As a parent I need to have room for up to 50 people for dinner So I can host christenings, confirmations etc at home.
- 13. As a parent I need to have room for up to 50 people for dinner So I can host christenings, confirmations etc at home. As an active swimmer I need my own pool So I will save time and money by not needing public swimming pools
- 14. As a parent I need to have room for up to 50 people for dinner So I can host christenings, confirmations etc at home. As an active swimmer I need my own pool So I will save time and money by not needing public swimming pools As a working parent of young children I want kitchen appliances that automatically cook me dinner when I come back from work So I can spend more time with my children
- 16. No control
- 21. User testing
- 24. Writing software takes too long
- 25. Writing software takes too long Wrong!
- 27. Lines of code Never (!) invoked Rarely invoked Called often
- 29. Automatic tests
- 30. Low coupling
- 31. Low coupling Don’t set out to build a generic platform with a unified user experience!
- 33. No goldplating
- 34. No edgecases
- 35. One case at a time
- 36. Customer Support / Existing, manual process
- 38. What do you think? Here you go! vs
- 39. Do your users have a choice?
- 40. Calm down, There will always be another deployment
- 41. How many people do you need?
- 42. “What one programmer can do in one month, Two programmers can do in two months” - Fred Brooks
- 43. How many teams of 7 authors do you need to write a good novel?
- 50. Something
- 52. Something Feedback Wrong thing
- 53. Something Feedback Wrong thing Something
- 54. Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback
- 55. Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing
- 56. Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing Something
- 57. Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback
- 58. Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing
- 59. Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing Something
- 60. Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback
- 61. Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Wrong thing Something Feedback Good enough
- 62. There is no The right thing ™
- 63. There is only GOOD ENOUGH
- 64. There is only GOOD ENOUGH …for now