Weekend Humor: Features and Complexity

A Dilbert comic strip for some weekend humor - Scott Adams on features and complexity...

A general on-going discussion in software development is around features, complexity and simplicity. During the past couple of weeks, I've been part of more than the usual number of discussions ... my inbox seems to be filled with long mail threads about what features should be added and what should not be. And then there are some comparisons between some "competing" shipped technologies. I won't name names here. :-)

One of my colleagues shared a Dilbert strip on this subject and I thought I'd post it here for some weekend humor.

You can find this strip and some others on feature creep in Another Day in Cubicle Paradise.

I wish there was full text search for the entire collection of Dilbert strips ... the closest I've come to is Google's Book Search.


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Posted on Saturday, 10/18/2008 @ 9:04 AM | #Life


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3 comments have been posted.

Salman

Posted on 10/20/2008 @ 6:07 AM
Hey at least you has a feature list! Getting a client to tell you exactly what you want is usually the bigger problem.

dummy_customer

Posted on 10/20/2008 @ 5:23 PM
Nikhil are you still on the asp.net team? Then the competing technologies are probably: spring.net, visual web gui, gaia ajax widgets, ruby, rails ...........why the secrecy?

Nikhil Kothari

Posted on 10/21/2008 @ 9:31 AM
I work on the web platform at large... Silverlight, ASP.NET, and stuff that builds on them both :-)

Actually the comparison was on different technology subsystems within the .net framework and microsoft development platform.
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