At the office I’ve doing a bit of project management as we’re short staffed at the moment (well all high tech is short staffed at the moment) and was reminded of this engineering truism:
There are three things you can have in a piece of software:
- It can be good.
- It can be fast.
- It can cheap.
You can only have two of the three:
- It can be good and fast but expensive.
- It can be good and cheap but not fast.
- It can fast and cheap but not good.
any attempt to achieve all three will result in bad, slow, and expensive software.
More wisdom next week,
Andrew
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…or it can be Microsoft…
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Could be …
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We usually wind up with #2, and remind ourselves how virtuous we are being patient. 😉
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Yup, that’s normally where I end up.
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Oh so true.
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It is.
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That actually sounds quite logical!
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It is very logical.
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If I had the loot, I would take good, fast, and expensive. However, as to how my finances are, I’ll take good and cheap.
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Me too.
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This explains a lot. Thanks, Andrew.
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Doing my best to pass along vital information.
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Mission accomplished.
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Is “cheep” the bird sound or a misspelling of the word, “cheap?”
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I meant cheap, fixed. Thanks.
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Once again, tech as a metaphor for life.
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It has lots of applications.
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