{"id":895,"date":"2007-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/01\/22\/833\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T23:00:00","slug":"833","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/01\/22\/833\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2007\/01\/21.html\" title=\"The Big Picture - Joel on Software\">The Big Picture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The only thing harder than trying to design software is trying to design software <em>as a team<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve been in a meeting with even one or two other programmers, trying to figure out how something should work, and we\u2019re just not getting anywhere. So I go off in my office and take out a piece of paper and figure it out. The very act of interacting with a second person was keeping me from concentrating enough to design the dang feature.<\/p>\n<p>What kills me is the teams who get into the bad habit of holding <em>meetings<\/em> every time they need to figure out how something is going to work. Did you ever try to write poetry in a committee meeting? It\u2019s like a bunch of fat construction guys trying to write an opera while sitting on the couch watching <em>Baywatch<\/em>.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky &#8211; The Big Picture: &#8222;The only thing harder than trying to design software is trying to design software as a team. I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve been in a meeting with even one or two other programmers, trying to figure out how something should work, and we\u2019re just not getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}