{"id":946,"date":"2005-09-29T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/09\/29\/bosworth-on-bullshit\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T15:33:00","slug":"bosworth-on-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/09\/bosworth-on-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosworth on bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambosworth.net\/archives\/000049.html\">Adam reports<\/a>\non the availability of a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/salesforce.breezecentral.com\/intelligentreaction\/\">presentation of his<\/a>,\ngiven at a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\">Salesforce.com<\/a> conference.  The gist of the\ntalk is that &#8211; excuse me for likely oversimplifying &#8211; waterfall model, bad,\nquick iterations driven by customer demand, good.  Sort of a &#8220;worse is better&#8221;\npitch (as much as I hate that phrase).<\/p>\n\n<p>What I enjoyed the most though, was this bit from the beginning of\nhis talk;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/salesforce.breezecentral.com\/intelligentreaction\/\">\nIt&#8217;s very very easy in this industry to believe your own bullshit &#8211;\nto invent some huge, very fancy model for how things will work, and\nthen go running like a bunch of crazed hampsters on wheels with that\nassumption in mind, where unfortunately it turns out that you&#8217;re\nactually floating across open water and about to drown.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Heh. 8-)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam reports on the availability of a presentation of his, given at a Salesforce.com conference. The gist of the talk is that &#8211; excuse me for likely oversimplifying &#8211; waterfall model, bad, quick iterations driven by customer demand, good. Sort of a &#8220;worse is better&#8221; pitch (as much as I hate that phrase). What I [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}