RELYING ON YOUR DEV LEAD I love my business partner Kirill, and we work pretty w

RELYING ON YOUR DEV LEAD

I love my business partner Kirill, and we work pretty well together.

I am more emotional, he is more steady.

There are some things that are just matters of understanding the user.

There are some things that are important to keep consistent so that the user will understand it. And I sort of carry weight with the former, and he the latter.

But we are very similar otherwise.

I rarely if ever say ‘well, we just gotta do it this way’.

I find that as in most things if we agree we should do it.

If we don’t agree we should wait until we do to do it.

And at this point he understands the application better than I do.

Alexey is sort of like the adult in the room. He humors us. Lets us babble, then says its logical or not, or that we’re not thinking clearly. It’s kind of interesting.

So if you watch us work, I submit issues. I rarely assume I am right. I just expect that these issues must survive team criticism. Which is the scientific thing to do.

Now, most of the time there is an analyst on a project (business rules), and a UI analyst (user experience), and these people try to minimize the impact on the development team.

But we can’t find those people here in this part of the world (and I think in many cases we’re much better at UX anyway even if our detail design isn’t often there – an artist problem not a UX problem).

So this is how we work. I say something insane, Kirill makes it compatible, and Alexey finds the limits and contradictions and corrects us and that seems to work pretty well.

There are some very old UI gaffs in there that I just don’t like. But we’ll fix them sooner or later.

Thanks for listening.

Curt