{"id":2748,"date":"2018-10-04T01:10:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T06:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2018-09-15T08:17:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T13:17:41","slug":"last-in-most-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/10\/last-in-most-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Last In, Most Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>We often use a simple yet silly algorithm for ranking requirements. It is easy. I guess that is why we use it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have a lot of work to do. We have more work than resources. Hence, we have to rank requirements to work the more important ones first.<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe we should rank the requirements to work the more important ones first.<\/p>\n<p>Well, sometimes we rank the requirements to work the more important ones first.<\/p>\n<p>Well, actually, we, uh, er, sort of work the requirements that we remember.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, you know, uh, the ones that someone told us yesterday. I suppose, uh, er, those were the last ones in, the last ones we scribbled on the white board. Well, maybe we didn&#8217;t even scribble them on the white board. We sort of remember them because someone just told us about them, so uh, er, we&#8217;re working on them.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad. We work by a simple yet silly process, uh, let&#8217;s say &#8220;algorithm&#8221; as that sounds more scientific and systematic. The last thing someone told me in the hallway is what I will work on today. That way I don&#8217;t have to bother with other thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, no one is paying attention to what we do, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We often use a simple yet silly algorithm for ranking requirements. It is easy. I guess that is why we use it. We have a lot of work to do. We have more work than resources. Hence, we have to rank requirements to work the more important ones first. Well, maybe we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,51,269,59],"tags":[299,173,270,179],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-choose","category-decide","category-requirements","tag-acountability","tag-choose","tag-decide","tag-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}