Provocative Post about Planning Products!

pk
Software , Pm
February 1, 2022

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Some provocative recommendations in this post: The size of your backlog is inversely proportional to your product’s success

While I think you ought to be synthesizing more than this suggests, the overplanning and under-reliance on what your customers actually do with your software is a massive fail. It takes some real courage to put the customer front and centre, at all times.

Slaying Software Zombies with LLMs (and lesser incantations)

pk
Software , Blog

Please enjoy my PyOhio talk on slaying software zombies! I’m talking about a very real problem of dealing with metacode (tests, docs, bugs, requirements etc…) that are no longer completely accurate (thus, zombies) due to not being in sync with the product & its code updating.