Strategic avoidance of stepping in a CrapFest

Does bear shit in woods^H^H^H^H^HSlovenia?

Sorting It All Out — Fri, 04 May 2007 05:16:41 GMT

Kind of a fun localization issue one of the OEMs noticed. They were looking at the Slovenian LIP, with

Confusion in the user interface can happen anywhere

Sorting It All Out — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:06:27 GMT

After that post Strategic avoidance of stepping in a CrapFest , I realize I might have come off as a

ויסטה- הגמל של מיקרוסופט

xslf.com — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:49:28 GMT

ויסטה עדיין לא בחנויות, וכבר מתבררים שחלקים ממערכת ההפעלה הזו הם פשוט תפלצים מוזרים. למשל- ממשק הכיבוי של המחשב, עליו התלונן יואל ספולסקי לאחרונה. במיקרוסופט עובדים לא מעט אנשים טובים ומוכשרים. איך הם הצליחו להסתבך ככה עם תכונות לכאורה פשוטות?הבלוג..

re: Strategic avoidance of stepping in a CrapFest

Dean Harding — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:14:12 GMT

I used to work for a fairly large company (nothing like Microsoft, of course) and I'd have to say that my experience is the same as yours.

There were always people who would have to do it all "by the book" and have meetings with as many "stakeholders" as possible. Six months later, they MIGHT have started coding, and twelve months later (after several restarts/rewrites) they might have something that worked.

Then there were people who did the best they could to get the job done. These people could get the same functionality out in about 6 DAYS, not 6 months, and everybody was just as happy with the final result.

The point is that I'm quite sure most of the people who went to the "Off-menu" meetings probably didn't want to be there -- just as Lettvin didn't want them to be there, either. If you know what I mean...