Comments on: You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way http://geeksinboston.com/2009/01/07/you-will-probably-fail-in-a-boring-and-project-specific-way/ we're here, we're geeks, get used to it Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:42:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Oval http://geeksinboston.com/2009/01/07/you-will-probably-fail-in-a-boring-and-project-specific-way/comment-page-1/#comment-112311 Oval Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:59:49 +0000 http://geeksinboston.com/?p=47#comment-112311 Engineers build products for engineers. So true. Now maybe some of you know music made by musicians for musicians. Who wants to hear that? Exactly. Engineers build products for engineers. So true. Now maybe some of you know music made by musicians for musicians. Who wants to hear that? Exactly.

]]> By: almost effortless » Weekly Digest, 1-11-09 http://geeksinboston.com/2009/01/07/you-will-probably-fail-in-a-boring-and-project-specific-way/comment-page-1/#comment-63754 almost effortless » Weekly Digest, 1-11-09 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:57:11 +0000 http://geeksinboston.com/?p=47#comment-63754 [...] You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way ...went through several informative rounds of load testing and tuning until we felt comfortable handling tens of thousands of users. We never got tens of thousands of users. [...] [...] You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way …went through several informative rounds of load testing and tuning until we felt comfortable handling tens of thousands of users. We never got tens of thousands of users. [...]

]]> By: January 2009’s most-clicked links: Linking, cheap laptops, local ads, fail - Joe Murphy http://geeksinboston.com/2009/01/07/you-will-probably-fail-in-a-boring-and-project-specific-way/comment-page-1/#comment-49252 January 2009’s most-clicked links: Linking, cheap laptops, local ads, fail - Joe Murphy Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:39:25 +0000 http://geeksinboston.com/?p=47#comment-49252 [...] You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way [...] [...] You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way [...]

]]> By: Girish http://geeksinboston.com/2009/01/07/you-will-probably-fail-in-a-boring-and-project-specific-way/comment-page-1/#comment-48017 Girish Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:07:13 +0000 http://geeksinboston.com/?p=47#comment-48017 That is an excellent point. 'The Black Swan' calls it confirmation bias. We have a tendency to look at examples that confirm our own thoughts. i.e. Think of the project and find needs that are expressed by a select number of customers that have that specific need. This ignores other bigger problems that are a lot more mundane. This requires us (the geeks) to be more of users than be service-providers. Based on that experience, we should build the product that delights that user. Somebody said "engineers build products for other engineers". That is what seems to cause this wasted cycles and failed projects. That is an excellent point. ‘The Black Swan’ calls it confirmation bias. We have a tendency to look at examples that confirm our own thoughts. i.e. Think of the project and find needs that are expressed by a select number of customers that have that specific need. This ignores other bigger problems that are a lot more mundane.

This requires us (the geeks) to be more of users than be service-providers. Based on that experience, we should build the product that delights that user.

Somebody said “engineers build products for other engineers”. That is what seems to cause this wasted cycles and failed projects.

]]> By: bsj http://geeksinboston.com/2009/01/07/you-will-probably-fail-in-a-boring-and-project-specific-way/comment-page-1/#comment-47941 bsj Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:09:44 +0000 http://geeksinboston.com/?p=47#comment-47941 good article but you lost me in the last paragraph good article but you lost me in the last paragraph

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