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Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by lmm on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:41PM (#23839911)
> Not everything can be broken down into chunks of work that fit into a single sprint.

In my experience everything can be broken down if you spend five minutes actually trying to break it down. And the benefits are very much worthwhile.

Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by hinkley on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:25AM (#23841662)
How much brownfield work have you done?

People can hide the fact that they have a big ball of mud fir a very long time, and they only want to talk about improvement after hunts have gotten miserable.

Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by lmm on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:01AM (#23842157)
> How much brownfield work have you done?

4-11 years depending on exactly what you'd define as "brownfield"

> People can hide the fact that they have a big ball of mud fir a very long time, and they only want to talk about improvement after hunts have gotten miserable.

True but beside the point. The same point stands: you can always find a way to make a worthwhile improvement in two weeks - something that's useful on its own, even if it's also the first step of a much bigger improvement plan.

Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by mikro2nd on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:32AM (#23843749)
Consider, then, that your experience might be limited in ways that you're unable to see due to that experience-bias.
Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by lmm on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:30AM (#23844200)
Unlikely. I used to go looking for tasks that couldn't be broken down; I'd get excited when someone would claim that their task couldn't be broken down. But they always could, and it was never even hard.
Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by willcipriano on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:58AM (#23845283)
My task is to implement a model that takes advantage of unified field theory to simulate arbitrary bodies in spacetime, first the mathematical models behind it need to be created then implemented in software.
Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by lmm on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:33PM (#23854320)
> My task is to implement a model that takes advantage of unified field theory to simulate arbitrary bodies in spacetime

Sure, sounds straightforward enough. Start with simple cases (e.g. universe is a unit circle), you can definitely implement useful pieces within two weeks.

> first the mathematical models behind it need to be created then implemented in software.

That's not a real (i.e. user-facing) requirement.

Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by willcipriano on Thursday July 16, 2020 @04:38AM (#23856994)
You should follow your own plan, a Nobel prize in physics awaits.
Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by lmm on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:56AM (#23867193)
There's no money in doing useful incremental pieces of physics (and precious little even for the big milestones), unfortunately.