{"id":403636,"date":"2010-03-08T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2195-lingo-slack-yagni-and-low-ceremony"},"modified":"2010-03-08T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:38:00","slug":"lingo-slack-yagni-and-low-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/403636","title":{"rendered":"[Lingo] Slack, YAGNI, and low ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three terms that came up repeatedly during our San Diego retreat:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slack<\/strong> <br \/>\nAll the stuff that doesn&#8217;t fit neatly into bigger, concept-driven iterations. We save one of our programmer\/designer <a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2185-a-new-way-of-working-a-two-month-recap\">teams<\/a> for slack work &mdash; small scope things that build up, a bug that needs to be fixed, a quick support assist, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">YAGNI<\/span><\/strong> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You_ain't_gonna_need_it\">You ain&#8217;t gonna need it.<\/a> It&#8217;s easy to get carried away discussing how you could possibly do this, that, or the other thing. It&#8217;s harder to step back and ask &#8220;Are we really gonna need this?&#8221; The answer is usually no.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Low ceremony<\/strong> <br \/>\nWhen it comes to workflow or policies, stay away from posturing. Just stick loosely to a few guidelines and let good judgement lead you the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=lcgbVoWu9R8:HYPg2r2SMZA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=lcgbVoWu9R8:HYPg2r2SMZA:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three terms that came up repeatedly during our San Diego retreat: Slack All the stuff that doesn&#8217;t fit neatly into bigger, concept-driven iterations. We save one of our programmer\/designer teams for slack work &mdash; small scope things that build up, a bug that needs to be fixed, a quick support assist, etc. YAGNI You ain&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}