Coach Thrasher

Parkinson's Law of Triviality (a.k.a. the bikeshed)

With yesterday's successful release under our belts, I've re-started thinking about features for the next release. There are a lot of things queued up and waiting to be tested in our product, by our customers. What takes priority?

I found this to be an interesting prequel to evaluation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law_of_Triviality

The point being, "Should we build it?" may need to become: "How do we test it?" The outcome of which, to me, is that the easiest things to test, at a product level, should be done first. What are the easiest things that we can get in front of customers and get feedback on now?

Posted at 12:16PM Mar 06, 2010 by jason in Software  |