{"id":608,"date":"2013-05-01T18:32:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/?p=608"},"modified":"2013-05-01T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:36:07","slug":"rigour-vs-just-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/2013\/05\/rigour-vs-just-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Rigour vs Just Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mythical_Man-Month\">The Mythical Man Month<\/a>, and I also happened to read <a title=\"McDonald\u2019s Theory\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/what-i-learned-building\/9216e1c9da7d\">this post<\/a> on just getting something started this morning. I&#8217;ve got two (conflicting?) messages in my head at the moment:<\/p>\n<p>From the Mythical Man Month, I&#8217;m hearing about how much planning used to go into development and testing of software systems. That sort of rigour just doesn&#8217;t seem to be present any more, and I am taking a desire away from the book to be a little bit more careful and systematic and thoughtful when approaching a new project. Kind of like that (<a title=\"it isn't listed on wikiquote at all, even as misattributed\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\">perhaps apocryphal<\/a>) <a title=\"but it is on &quot;goodreads&quot;. hmmm...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/60780-if-i-had-an-hour-to-solve-a-problem-i-d\">Einstein quote<\/a> about solving a problem in an hour: \u201cIf I had an hour to solve a problem I&#8217;d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.\u201d It&#8217;s allegedly beneficial to sit down and think before you start doing.<\/p>\n<p>Against that, from the Lean Startup and Fail Fast sort of camp, I have the suggestion to just get something out there. Write anything down, acknowledging that it&#8217;s awful, just to get started. Step 2 is easier, and iteration is what drives progress. You won&#8217;t know most of the problem until you really dive into solving it. That kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>These both seem right, but they also seem incompatible. There&#8217;s probably a middle road &#8212; I wonder whether it&#8217;s best to think out how to find it, or to just start trying things and hash something out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading The Mythical Man Month, and I also happened to read this post on just getting something started this morning. I&#8217;ve got two (conflicting?) messages in my head at the moment: From the Mythical Man Month, I&#8217;m hearing about how much planning used to go into development and testing of software systems. That sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}