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Rapid Development

Steve McConnell

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jeff Atwood recommends it
Rapid Development isn't about rapid development. It's about the reality of failure. The vast majority of software development projects will fail: they will overrun their schedules, produce substandard results, or sometimes not even finish at all.

on blog.codinghorror.com · 2 Feb 2004

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.