Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Planning is Not Plannable

The schedule can’t be turtles all the way down.  The planning process 
itself can be unpredictable -- in particular, there is always more that 
can be done to reduce the uncertainty in the plan, but at some point it is 
better to start writing code.

If you get a group of people together and say “play devil’s advocate and 
come up with corner cases” you will almost always come up with more 
and more abstract potential problems.  Conversely, if you stop the first 
time the plan “seems correct” without going over it carefully looking for 
flaws there are almost guaranteed to be important pieces missed.

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