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Lean Essays
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Lean Essays is a personal blog at leanessays.com about programming and business. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “The Cost Center Trap”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Essays on software development and startups; one commenter links a piece as a good take on Parnas's 1986 rational design process paper, alongside Kent Beck's ideas on experimenting in early startups.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Cost Center Trap3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-11-05
- The end of enterprise IT3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-16
- What If Your Team Wrote the Code for the 737 MCAS System?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-11
What Hacker News says?
Kent Beck, the guy who created Extreme Programming, Test Driven Development, and the first Unit Test Library ever, made a very similar point about this a few years ago, in his "The Flight of the Startup"[1] In the taxi phase, breadth, speed, and, above all, cost of experimentation is the key. Try out ideas related to lots of different needs. Precision of feedback during the taxi phase is less important than trying o…
Comment linking /2011/07/how-cadence-determines-process.html
on “Give A Damn”Submitted The Cost Center Trap as a story · 128 points
HN discussionI've always found the arguments in this paper so bizarre that when reading it I have to constantly keep reminding myself that in the 80s this nonsense must have seemed like a practical way forward. (Parnas in particular was one of the giants of software engineering research.) I wrote a piece about it a few years back: http://www.zerobanana.com/essays/rational-design/ Another good take on it: http://www.leanessays.co…
Comment linking /2010/11/rational-design-process-its-time-to.html
on “A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It (1986) [pdf]”Submitted A Tale of Two Terminals: Beijing Terminal 3 and Heathrow Terminal 5 as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Enterprise IT as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean Software Development: The Backstory as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Enterprise IT as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The end of enterprise IT as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Demand Exceeds Capacity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What If Your Team Wrote the Code for the 737 MCAS System? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What If Your Team Wrote the Code for the 737 MCAS System? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cost Center Trap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Enterprise IT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean Essays as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Cadence Predicts Process as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Official Intelligence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cost Center Trap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cost Center Trap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Before There Was Management as a story · 1 points
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