Description: Domino and Notes developer describes what he finds interessting. Web 2.0, antispam, encryption and cooking.
Bugwards compatible is a property of a system, product, process or technology that assures that older bugs are retained and not fixed since the quirk of the bug is used to gain features originally not intended. Fixing such a bug would break the systems, products, processes or technologies depending on or using it. This would cause substantial cost for the consumers when compensating for the loss of features.
One of my favorite videos from Peter Kruse describes how to act to create total gridlock in an organization. I’m sad to say that I have lived through all of them, thankfully not all at once.
In a couple of years I have had the opportunity to live through the full cycle of going from centralized to a decentralized organization. Or rather I’m in the middle of moving in to a decentralized organisation. But as so often the pendular tends to swing a bit to far when performing these type of changes. In both cases one of most challenging tasks are to manage complexity.