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Document or Die!

The DoD Principle is easily summed up with the short statement, "If it's not worth documenting it's probably not worth doing."
Better Bugs [This week's post is a guest submission from Jason Schmidt (yes, he's my son). Jason is a far better software engineer than I could ever be. I wish I could say that I t… https://prettygoodproblemsolver.com/blog/document-or-die/

The Four Constraints of Any Project

I was wrong. There are four (not three) constraints of any project. Read on to discover the bug in my previous thinking.
Better Bugs In the first edition of The Dog Barks When the Phone Rings: An Engineer’s Guide to Solving Problems, I wrote that all projects are subject to three constraints: Time, … https://prettygoodproblemsolver.com/blog/four-constraints-any-project/