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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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