tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371436.post6115317764336505695..comments2023-08-11T06:11:22.868-07:00Comments on Poling Place: Stop Watches and YardsticksSteve Polinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06095291939072131815noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371436.post-67699276188520539832007-04-30T06:09:00.000-07:002007-04-30T06:09:00.000-07:00Very nice piece of writing and I really like the m...Very nice piece of writing and I really like the metaphor you selected regarding track & field.<BR/><BR/>I like to use the old project management notion of 0-100% done. It's one or the other, there is not middle ground on task (i.e., story) completion. In the end, the business function is either supported or not. It may mean that you need to decompose the story into more than one stories, but you always want to know which ones work and which ones don't.<BR/><BR/>I also often fall back to Herbert Simon's notion of <B>satisficing</B> in which he states that sometimes things need to be <I>just good enough</I> so that we don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good. This is required, since we are faced with <B>bounded rationality</B> or imperfect knowledge and therefore imperfect decision making capability about a thing. Therefore, we can only seek that which is practical and relatively efficient to implement, acknowledging that we are simply doing the best we can, rather than the most optimal thing we can.jcbandxihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03289515761334410338noreply@blogger.com