I’m a big fan of Rapid Prototyping – which drives most corporations nuts.<\/p>\n
The basic idea is that it is impossible to know ahead of time what the best solution for a problem is going to be when you start.\u00a0\u00a0 Rather than spend 6 months carefully planning every last detail at endless meetings, whip together a prototype in a day or two with no formal design process.\u00a0\u00a0 Let people play with it and find out approximately what the right solution is.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If it doesn’t work, tear it up and start over.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Only once you have most people nodding their heads “Yes, that’s what I want!”, then you write down the formal design and do things like adding in rigorous edits and creating the documentation.<\/p>\n
The huge risk to this approach is the “customer” thinks the prototype is the real system – which you have to caution them before it starts.\u00a0\u00a0 The prototype probably can’t run fast enough to be real and lacks the test to make sure invalid data doesn’t come into the process.<\/p>\n
This approach is very anti-ISO 9001 unless you accept “Our process is there is no process” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
So what that long winded prelude, here is today’s thing to draw up on the chalkboard.<\/p>\n
The starting point of any kind of “Bloat Meter” is I have to put things in piles so the similar things are together.\u00a0\u00a0 (“One of these things doesn’t belong with the other”)<\/p>\n
There is my work so far this morning<\/p>\n
http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/adm\/player-type.php<\/a><\/p>\n It should let you in – if not, just yell at me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n This is most of the choices of the flavors of different players.\u00a0\u00a0 Using my normal convention, the column headings let you “Sort by” this.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sort by number you’ll find interesting, especially if you’re in the streaming business \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Send me a ham for Christmas \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or if you work for SoundExchange, in which case send me a BMW \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n The general end game may go something like this, but I’m still not sure it is the right answer – allow people who are logged in to exclude specific players…\u00a0\u00a0 similar to the way you exclude individual stations currently.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So you don’t want to see uStream streams?\u00a0 Poof, they’re gone.\u00a0\u00a0 (Did you know saying poof to an English person is offensive?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a big fan of Rapid Prototyping – which drives most corporations nuts. The basic idea is that it is impossible to know ahead of time what the best solution for a problem is going to be when you start.\u00a0\u00a0 … Continue reading