Leslie Lamport: State the Problem Before Describing the Solution [pdf]

Hard agree. I will even take it one step further:

State the Business Problem Before Describing the Solution.

If you can’t explain how the solution will improve the business and how it ranks compared with solving other business problems then you are doing it wrong.

Leslie Lamport was a hero for me. Then i heard that he went to Microsoft and then i heard nothing about him.

I guess Microsoft got what it wanted.

There was a paper published about making SQL server transactions distributed. But one of the authors was lost at sea. That was the last I heard of it.

(1978)