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Walked for coffee with a friend this

2025-07-15 19:40:02.694492+02 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Walked for coffee with a friend this morning, and one of the topics was user stories. And I'm now sitting here thinking about how many fantastic ideas in product development there have been over the decades I've been in computing, and how I still struggle to get people to adopt any of those best practices from other disciplines into computing.

Some days it's like Deming never existed.

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#Comment Re: Walked for coffee with a friend this made: 2025-07-15 19:26:46.149044+02 by: markd

I guess Kanban is Deming adjacent? But for the most part, TQM is just another TLA folks don't look up.

(my dad used TQM to improve a number of hospital radiology and nuclear medicine departments in the 80s and 90s, so I've at least heard of the guy :-) )

#Comment Re: Walked for coffee with a friend this made: 2025-07-16 00:54:07.74044+02 by: Dan Lyke

It just repeatedly feels like software people over and over again figure out how to build good software, and then repeatedly don't.

And right now career-wise I feel like I don't have any good ideas for direction. I don't understand why the market is buying what it's buying. Products seem to be going to shit, in ways that I don't want to use them. There's all sorts of opportunity to do amazing things with products that empower end users, and we're just... not.

#Comment Re: Walked for coffee with a friend this made: 2025-07-16 00:54:07.74044+02 by: spc476

I think we're in a transitional phase of history that seems to happen every 80 years or so (going back 80 years, we have WWII, Civil War and Revolutionary War). Give it a few years to settle out.

Hopefully.

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