Comments on: Elements Of Simplicity: Make Up Your Mind http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/06/23/elements-of-simplicity-make-up-your-mind/ Lidor Wyssocky's Blog on Optimizing Software Development Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:39:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Elements Of Simplicity: Make Up Your Mind by: wine making http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/06/23/elements-of-simplicity-make-up-your-mind/#comment-6584 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:50:36 +0000 http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/06/23/elements-of-simplicity-make-up-your-mind/#comment-6584 good good

]]> Comment on Elements Of Simplicity: Make Up Your Mind by: make-up http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/06/23/elements-of-simplicity-make-up-your-mind/#comment-6456 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:55:20 +0000 http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/06/23/elements-of-simplicity-make-up-your-mind/#comment-6456 hello hello

]]> Comment on Elements Of Simplicity: Make Up Your Mind by: Mike Giovinazzo http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/06/23/elements-of-simplicity-make-up-your-mind/#comment-902 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:09:46 +0000 http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/06/23/elements-of-simplicity-make-up-your-mind/#comment-902 Well stated. The other consideration, is make up you mind QUICKLY. As Lidor stated the initial discussion and analysis can sometimes be difficult, but in practice (as the developers responsible for implementing) lines are being drawn. What might be a hard decision to make at first only gets harder as the system takes shape and the cost of retrofit starts to climb quickly. After a while, even if you could agree on a responsibility of each component, the team just says "that's great but its too late to go back and do that now; next release- PERHAPS". Well stated. The other consideration, is make up you mind QUICKLY.

As Lidor stated the initial discussion and analysis can sometimes be difficult, but in practice (as the developers responsible for implementing) lines are being drawn. What might be a hard decision to make at first only gets harder as the system takes shape and the cost of retrofit starts to climb quickly.

After a while, even if you could agree on a responsibility of each component, the team just says “that’s great but its too late to go back and do that now; next release- PERHAPS”.

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]]> Comment on Elements Of Simplicity: Make Up Your Mind by: John Kushiner http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/06/23/elements-of-simplicity-make-up-your-mind/#comment-739 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:29:59 +0000 http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/06/23/elements-of-simplicity-make-up-your-mind/#comment-739 Good post. Just what I needed to hear today. Well, every day actually. --John http://www.todotoh.com Good post. Just what I needed to hear today. Well, every day actually.

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