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Reason #2 – it’s not scalable It’s a sad and unfortunate truth that there are only so many hours in the day – even for the Hero. When you first start out, 10 or 12 hours a day might be enough for you generate a good revenue stream. Things are going well – you’ve got a good reputation and your heroics are making your customers happy. You’ve got some opportunities to grow! So you start working longer hours, weekends become a great opportunity to work even more just to keep the growth going. You hire some extra...
via youtube.com I dare you to find a better one.
Fractal Estimation After the scope of the project has been constructed, some stories may be considered too large to fit into an iteration, so the team decide to split them into the smallest possible deliverable slices, re-estimating each slice. Of course, this is a bit like measuring the coast of Britain. The epic which was 13 points at project inception becomes 16 points of features, and 23 points of stories by the time it’s done in the sprints. Analysts wonder where this extra scope came from, while advocates...
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. —Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid[1] via en.wikipedia.org
In computer programming and software engineering, the ninety-ninety rule is a humorous aphorism that states, "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time." via en.wikipedia.org
via engineyard.com The truth is that dynamic profiling is the path to excellent performance. HotSpot is much more clever than we are. It has the benefit of profile data from the running application to inform itself.
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