Scope creep: why appraisers are doing more for less, and how to restore balance.(BEST PRACTICES)Phillips, Robin L
(A&M, 1991) Just as grunge was about to take over the musical landscape, Soundgarden dropped their third studio album -- 1991's 'Badmotorfinger.' Showing more metal influences than some of their peers, Soundgarden's heaviness connected right out of the gate with t...
A project brief is a document that outlines the goals, scope, and deliverables of your project. Think of it as being like a blueprint to a house: it shows you the essential measurements and materials, but nothing so granular as step-by-step decoration tips.Its primary function is to provi...
On a similar note, Haskell type classes basically live in global scope. There are good reasons for this, and it avoids you having to write a whole lot of painful sharing constraints (The example that is thrown at me every time I complain about this is what do you do if you want to u...
'Badmotorfinger' Soundgarden (1991):Soundgarden's third album is the one where they turned the corner from sludgy, Sabbath-inspired riffs to more intricate forms of songwriting. They wouldn't master it until their next LP, 1994's breakthrough 'Superunknown,' but the seeds of their grunge mi...
And they’re also realizing that there is a way to have your cake and eat it too. Rather than betting millions of dollars on new and untested ideas or trying to stave off scope creep while pushing the envelope of mobile gaming with Console wannabes, You can copy your own game via a ...
(something, you’ll notice, I’ve deliberately undermined in the above example by turning it into a punchline). The only thing people would get from a statement like that is “CROWLEY BAD, VERY APPROPRIATION”. Any discussion of impact outside of what’s broadly vilified as “colonial” ...
“The problem is with those “reserves”. Today’s reserves are just not the same as those earlier reserves. All the good cheap stuff has already been sucked up. We are now left with dredges at the bottom of the barrel.” Ron, you sound like Gail Tvarberg on a bad day. Very shor...
There are two amygdalae, and oddly, the left one has been shown to be more balanced, sometimes producing happy feelings in addition to the usual angsty ones, while the right one is always in a bad mood. The hippocampus Your hippocampus (Greek for “seahorse” because it looks like one)...
Absolutely. And I think this is where things start to get dangerous. There’s a little bit of a people-pleasing creep that happens. Your boss says, I just need some last minute help with this one thing. You step in. You become known as a very reliable people-pleaser. And so they kn...