Chapter 25Magic Beans
Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.
“Why is it taking so long to add one little feature?” Your manager had assigned your team to enhance the bug-tracking application to show a count of how many comments a bug had received. You’ve been working on this task for four weeks.
Your group of software developers in the meeting room looks reluctant to answer the question. As project lead, you answer. “We’ve had a couple of false starts,” you explain. “It seemed simple at first, until we realized there were some other screens in the application where we needed to show the comment count.”
“And designing the ...
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