Thursday, June 06, 2002

Schedules are lies. Schedules suck. Yes, yes, yes. But we still need them. The most effective scheduling rule i've used is to schedule so as to unblock others. The idea is to complete the portions of a feature that will unblock those dependent on you. This way development moves along smoothly because more lines of development can be active at a time. For example, instead of implementing the entire database, implement the simple interface and stub it out. People can work for a very long time this way using that portion of the feature that caused others not to block. Plus it's a form of rapid prototyping because you get immediate feedback on these parts. Don't worry about the quality of implementation because it doesn't matter yet. comment[] 10:47:17 AM

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