Customers may talk about hating bugs, but when you ask them to put their money where their mouth is, 95% of the time they'll buy buggier software with more features.
Re:Scrum disempowers developers
by bradstewart on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:54AM
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This. Figuring out how to stop at 80% is a skill I'm struggling to learn. And I don't mean "learn to half-ass things"; in the vast majority of cases 80% is more than good enough to get the job done.
I'm told I work too slow, dive too deep. Now I'm trying to figure out how to do just 80%, "good enough".
When I was a kid, I published shareware. After getting a few 3:00am wake up calls from irate customers, I said "never again". I spent 15 years designing, engineering away technical support calls. It mostly worked. Later on... When my team(s) burned a CD, we rarely had to issue patches, hot fixes.
Customers loved us.
I thought that was the pinnacle of human achievement.
Now, I feel like I'm still fighting battles over things no one cares about any more.