Jussi Mäkelä

Finn lost in Sweden. A dad, a sailor, a learner. Runs a small consultancy.

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

"Success isn’t a synonym for truth, and what people accept as right doesn’t make it right. Things succeed not because they are true but because they meet some human want or need or even outright seductive human delusion."

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

@allenholub Yes, requirements cannot possibly be the starting point of any design process, since they are determined by the stakeholders. Including users and customers.

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

Why do we insist on using the parent-child analogy when talking about the relationship between management and ICs? 😬

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@aahoogendoorn @allenholub Those pesky regulations!

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@allenholub Define “requirement” first. I suspect you might be talking about something else here.

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@allenholub I teach my clients to identify and quantify whatever critical value objectives they might have for their products, projects and organisations. Defining a scale of measure for let’s say user/customer satisfaction or effectiveness is not impossible nor difficult, it’s teachable.

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

@BryanFinster @allenholub @imtomgilb iPhone is a solution, not a need.

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@allenholub Value is just an umbrella term representing different needs. Quantify those needs (see @imtomgilb’s work) and then derive the meter based on the quantification.

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

”Excellence can reside in only two places - individual geniuses who succeed despite the mediocrity of those all around them, and States that harness their Human Resources to the full to transform them into wonders of ages.”

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

@MarttiPaldanius Päinvastoin.

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@mekins @mhwalmsley @allenholub Correct, not everything is possible to be known in advance. We are clearly operating from different definitions so not very useful starting point. :)

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@mekins @mhwalmsley @allenholub You’re making some assumptions that aren’t true but that’s fine. Defect prevention process and software inspection lead you away from software developer centricity into systems engineering so be prepared to challenge yourself if you want to look into it more.

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

“How can a system based on the interests of the people be attached to a system based on the wealth of the few and still be coherent?”

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@mekins @mhwalmsley @allenholub The kind of software inspection @mhwalmsley is talking about has very little to do with TDD. It’s associated with requirements engineering and design engineering, and as such is diametrically opposed to the craftsmanship approach Allen advocates.

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

“Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men”

-Atatürk

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

“Morality cannot be extended to those who cannot think”

- Hockney

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“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”

-Bertrand Russell

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

“All negative libertarians who despise government and the State, all anarchists who hate rules, laws and leaders, all free-market capitalists who revel in consumerism and the profit principle, all Abrahamists and Karmists
- they are the unpardonable enemies of human progress”

[Jussi Mäkelä @makelajussi]

“It’s never a good career move to be on the side of the Truth…”
-Hockney

So good it hurts a little. 😅🥹

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What happened to all the agilists promoting Teal and such? Oh yeah, comfortably in middle management positions.