Comments on: A Few Lessons Learned http://kohari.org/2009/08/17/a-few-lessons-learned/ Rambling and occasional wisdom from Nate Kohari Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:45:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Daily Links for Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 http://kohari.org/2009/08/17/a-few-lessons-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-1316 Daily Links for Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:53:28 +0000 http://kohari.org/2009/08/17/a-few-lessons-learned/#comment-1316 [...] A Few Lessons Learned — Discord&Rhyme [...] [...] A Few Lessons Learned — Discord&Rhyme [...]

]]> By: DP http://kohari.org/2009/08/17/a-few-lessons-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-1253 DP Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:25:15 +0000 http://kohari.org/2009/08/17/a-few-lessons-learned/#comment-1253 Agreed on meta-work. Sometimes it is worthwhile to spend some time on things that are necessary, but not really part of the user experience. I'm curious though what you mean when you say that your billing system is one of the most complex in the system. I'd have thought it would be fairly straightforward service that looks at your customer records, and once per month triggers the billing process. Agreed on meta-work. Sometimes it is worthwhile to spend some time on things that are necessary, but not really part of the user experience.

I’m curious though what you mean when you say that your billing system is one of the most complex in the system. I’d have thought it would be fairly straightforward service that looks at your customer records, and once per month triggers the billing process.

]]> By: RobertTheGrey http://kohari.org/2009/08/17/a-few-lessons-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-1202 RobertTheGrey Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:52:41 +0000 http://kohari.org/2009/08/17/a-few-lessons-learned/#comment-1202 Great post Nate! I've had the same issues on my current project regarding meta-work and administration. I couldn't agree with you more, and whilst I thought I could get away with building all the client facing bits first to impress potential beta testers, I've been bitten more than once by not having proper diagnotics and admin stuff setup in time to catch the problems those beta testers inadvertently ran into... the terms 'egg' and 'face' come to mind ;-) Great work on Agile Zen - keep it up! Cheers, Rob G Great post Nate!

I’ve had the same issues on my current project regarding meta-work and administration. I couldn’t agree with you more, and whilst I thought I could get away with building all the client facing bits first to impress potential beta testers, I’ve been bitten more than once by not having proper diagnotics and admin stuff setup in time to catch the problems those beta testers inadvertently ran into… the terms ‘egg’ and ‘face’ come to mind ;-)

Great work on Agile Zen – keep it up!
Cheers,
Rob G

]]> By: Scott Muc http://kohari.org/2009/08/17/a-few-lessons-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 Scott Muc Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:43:24 +0000 http://kohari.org/2009/08/17/a-few-lessons-learned/#comment-1154 Here here on the soft-delete! I've done a couple projects now where I wish I soft deleted everything. Sometimes having ON DELETE CASCADE on every foreign key relation is quite scary. Here here on the soft-delete! I’ve done a couple projects now where I wish I soft deleted everything. Sometimes having ON DELETE CASCADE on every foreign key relation is quite scary.

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