Siddharth’s law of Software Inertia
Software hacks, no matter how terrible, live forever. Once a hack is in place, an organization will talk about the ‘right solution’ but will immediately deprioritize working on the right solution.
What does it take to lay 9.2 kilometers of road in Karnataka?
What does it take to lay 9.2 kms of road ? The Nandi Infrastucture Corridor Project found this out the hard way while trying to build a road from Bangalore to Mysore. Here’s the lowdown:
10 years
10,500 government official signatures
7 prime ministers
Four Chief Ministers
Eight Chief Secretaries
15 Ministers for Public Works
Eight secretaries of the [...]
Go for #3
One of the early – and best – career lessons came from my boss, when I was 2 years out of college.
I agonized over a design decision for a couple of days, and finally asked him to help me out. He was late to a meeting, so was rushing, but agreed to listen to me [...]
Mediocrity is underrated (or better is the enemy of good enough)
Filed under: General, R2I — sram @ 6:11 am
Many frustrating years of working on software have made me realize that there is one underlying falsehood which results in lousy software. Trying to build high quality software. This is solving the wrong problem. Undoubtedly, the most underrated characteristic of successful organizations and software is mediocrity.
All companies [...]