tcarnell
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Comment · 2 years ago
After thought:
Tech Debt is NOT a badge of honour, it's the opposite, it says "we made an engineering decision so bad that we now have to spend time and effort fixing/changing things which adds ZERO business value".
Comment · 2 years ago
100% agree.
JUST_DO_IT (add value, fast) <-----------------------------------> WHAT_THE_BOOK_SAYS (enterprise arch etc etc)
The BIG problem is the total misconception that:
> JUST_DO_IT = bad engineering
> WHAT_THE_BOOK_SAYS = good engineering
In reality, the quality of execution is independent of the development approach - you can make a complete mess of either approach, however, the WHAT_THE_BOOK_SAYS approach WILL cost you a LOT more time and money to discover your team has messed up it and WILL cost a lot more time and money to fix.
My experience is that, just as your product evolves & grows, your engineering strategy should evolve and grow. There's a good reason why fortune 500 companies will have enormous IT teams, using enterprise cloud technology... and there's a good reason why successful tech start-ups do the exact opposite.... but hopefully, the startup will become a fortune 500 company.
Comment · 8 years ago
ah, sorry! I've not been here for years actually, I always remember people posting tech/startup positions, but fair enough - I wont do it again.
Comment · 10 years ago
so Dont try to fix the problem, just limit the consequences.
this type of action is likely to have the exactly opposite effect.
Comment · 11 years ago
oh, free burgers every Friday :-)
Comment · 13 years ago
Just another one of my little web apps, some might find it useful or inspiring...
tom (APIHouse.com)
Comment · 13 years ago
Why is 'email' not an option? Which is by FAR the most commonly used internal communication system - although I do NOT recommend it!
Comment · 13 years ago
Teamtinct.com - It is still in its early days, but works great.
Comment · 13 years ago
(although I am glad NOT to see Dyson on the list for producing excessively expensive vacuum cleaners with little or no perceivable benefit
Comment · 13 years ago
and Sony - because they just ARE an innovative company (the walkman/discman, betamax, minidisc, S/PDIF, bluray, professional broadcast and audio products.
Philips I've already mentioned, but companies like Toshiba give us lots of innovation with things like disc drives (I cant remember Starbucks ever developing a new type of fast, energy efficient storage media, although that did give us the 'mocha-choca-frappa-latte')
Tom Carnell