Comments on: Developing a Website http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/03/17/developing-a-website/ Improving the human experience one day at a time Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/03/17/developing-a-website/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Dave Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:45:08 +0000 http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/03/developing-a-website/#comment-326 I find that's true of software in general, not just websites. In fact, it's true of tasks in life that are based on a set of requirements that has general and specific items. It's just a case of diminishing returns. It's true of cleaning a room. It's true of most writing. Anything where you can have a baseline result and tweak it. The tweaks can take a lot of time without making a huge difference. Interestingly, the simpler the end result is, the straighter that line becomes. It's also basically the principle behind agile programming. Do a cycle to set the basics, do a cycle to make the next lower level set of changes. In other words, you essentially end up dividing the big curved line into smaller and smaller straight lines with smaller and smaller slope like some sort of calculus problem. I find that’s true of software in general, not just websites. In fact, it’s true of tasks in life that are based on a set of requirements that has general and specific items. It’s just a case of diminishing returns. It’s true of cleaning a room. It’s true of most writing. Anything where you can have a baseline result and tweak it. The tweaks can take a lot of time without making a huge difference.

Interestingly, the simpler the end result is, the straighter that line becomes. It’s also basically the principle behind agile programming. Do a cycle to set the basics, do a cycle to make the next lower level set of changes. In other words, you essentially end up dividing the big curved line into smaller and smaller straight lines with smaller and smaller slope like some sort of calculus problem.

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