Planning

Planning seems to be an overlooked art within the application development community. It is absolutely critical to the success of a development project, yet it gets comparatively little press compared to programming issues. This might be because most of us programmers aren’t interested in what we think of as “management issues,” or it might be the result of focusing too intently on the practice of programming as opposed to overall application development.

Applications aren’t about programming, they aren’t about cool code, and they aren’t even about what great programmers we all are. Applications are about getting a job done for the user, whoever that might be. The key to finding out what the job is and how we can help the user do the ...

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