Was reading the Hobo site (“the web application builder for Rails”) and they summed up my understanding of agile: “not going fast, but staying flexible”. However, in its own context, it appeared to me slightly shocking, as if the following sentence might be news to some, who have confused agility with speed:
“It turns out that the hard part is not going fast, but staying flexible.”
“I have some ironclad rules for starting a technology venture. I broke a bunch of them when I started my latest technology venture” Joel Spolsky
To-do list management app “Things” has just gone a new point release. Things 0.9.6 : Things Blog : Cultured Code
By adding “global search” across all tags and tasks (which seems like a small feature to add) the nature of ones interaction with the application has totally changed.
Don’t have the time to reflect on how and why this changes interaction so much, but it helps me to recommend this app, and makes me think (as an application designer/developer) how important it is to work on the right feature.
