Proposed addition to the standard corporate development procedures:
Henceforth, any developer that uses the word “just” while describing or estimating the implementation of a new feature to a manager will be assigned the design, coding and testing tasks for that feature.
Comments
Agreed.
To which I would like to add the word "doable". Anyone found claiming off-the-cuff that a particular development task is doable, should be the one to do it.
Along with the words "Easy", "Trivial", or any derivation of "will only take XX minutes" :-)
In my shop, we call it "CYJ", or "Can't you just..." If anyone gets hot to jump on a project, we say "I think that's a CYJ."
I wrote about this on my oreillynet.com blog, including a link to why sometimes "just" is the way to go. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3593
The forbidden word at my previous engineering job was 'simply'
- "the user simply enters this and clicks here"
- "all you do is simply reload the frobnitz module into the local namespace"
Like somebody well known to both of us is fond of saying, "Anything is possible; it's a simple matter of programming."