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Re:Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuo... by Verdex on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:36AM (#27959884)
> And shouldn't the senior members of a team or managers explain to novices the importance of meeting such milestones that you mentioned?

I basically read the whole list as: "How do be successful? Step 1: Be successful. Step 2: Be successful at purple. etc"

Some of it sort of makes sense. Some of it might as well be gibberish. None of it is useful without a bunch of senior members of a team who have been successful before. And if that's the case, then we can just delete the list and stick with the senior members of the team.

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Re:Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuo... by Gupie on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:17AM (#27960461)
The prefer "outcomes to output" is not a "How do be successful? Step 1: Be successful. Step 2: Be successful at purple". I can see the use of such a list for example on a team wiki as a reminder that you don't get credit for writing a 3 page email when a 6 liner would be as useful.

I can see the use of such a list for example on a team wiki as a reminder of what the team considers good practice.

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