Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Almost two decades ago, Joel Spolsky wrote the venerable Joel Test. The test is a series of twelve yes/no questions that signal the quality of the software produced by the team taking it.
Parts of the test are specific to the kind of software Joel and his team at Fog…