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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

Goodhart’s Law: Enterprising Indians began to breed and farm snakes to kill and get their reward, which was much easier than killing wild snakes, actually increasing the total snake population. It was poor data and oversight by the people developing, testing and implementing the system that was at fault.

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

The data measures the flow of business value through all the activities involved in a software value stream. I’m also referencing upstream activities, software development technical impediments, and post-build activities. To my knowledge, we are the only organization with access to such a large and complex value stream data set.

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Hackathons simplified

hackerearth

A hackathon , also known as a codefest, is typically a day-long coding competition where a bunch of software developers, computer programmers, designers, and others join hands to improve upon or build a new software program. The goal of the hackathon was to educate developers about Alexa. Work under pressure.

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Hackathons simplified

hackerearth

A hackathon , also known as a codefest, is typically a day-long coding competition where a bunch of software developers, computer programmers, designers, and others join hands to improve upon or build a new software program. The goal of the hackathon was to educate developers about Alexa. Work under pressure.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point. If there are no design engineers, a system architect and GUI lead may be the best option for software expertise.

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Photos for interaction

Boxes and Arrows

When developing user interfaces, designers increasingly use custom graphical elements. As the web browser becomes basic technology for software interfaces, more and more elements derived from graphic and web design replace the traditional desktop approaches to the concrete design of human-computer interfaces.