http://billhiggins.us/blog/2008/01/02/measures-of-progress/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://billhiggins.us/blog/2008/01/02/measures-of-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-165 afongen Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:28:17 +0000 http://billhiggins.us/weblog/2008/01/02/measures-of-progress/#comment-165 [...] Bill Higgins wrote something that resonates with me: We began bootstrapping the Admin Web UI in September and I thought we’d made good progress in such a short amount of time. Erich didn’t seem so impressed with what he saw. I was a bit frustrated by this because I thought Erich was being unreasonable - we’d made good progress for the short amount of time we’d been working on it. But after a few more minutes of chatting, I realized that there was simply a mismatch in what we were evaluating. I was evaluating the state of the Admin Web UI vs. the resources (time and people) we’d had to work on it; Erich was evaluating the state of the Admin Web UI vs. his vision of what an awesome Admin Web UI should look like. [...] [...] Bill Higgins wrote something that resonates with me: We began bootstrapping the Admin Web UI in September and I thought we’d made good progress in such a short amount of time. Erich didn’t seem so impressed with what he saw. I was a bit frustrated by this because I thought Erich was being unreasonable – we’d made good progress for the short amount of time we’d been working on it. But after a few more minutes of chatting, I realized that there was simply a mismatch in what we were evaluating. I was evaluating the state of the Admin Web UI vs. the resources (time and people) we’d had to work on it; Erich was evaluating the state of the Admin Web UI vs. his vision of what an awesome Admin Web UI should look like. [...]

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