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A Smart Bear » The “errors” that mean you’re doing it right

Jason Cohen

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  • If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. —Frank Wilczek, 2004 winner of Nobel for Physics
  • Re-adding features/bugs you removed from the backlog If you’re not adding back feature-requests or bugs you cleaned out of the backlog, you’re not cleaning out enough
  • Pivoting a strategy just after creating it A strategy that never changes is wrong, and the most likely time to discover that it’s wrong is just after you wrote it down, because you have the least practical experience with how it intersects with real life
  • Windows 95 shipped with tens of thousands of known bugs1, and was heralded as one of the greatest software innovations and most successful product releases of its time. Contact with customers lets you know which bugs are more important to fix next, and always reveal new bugs that you weren’t going to find on your own anyway