Technical Constraints

Questions by Mike Ritchie in September 2017

What are the biggest technical constraints you face in your development?
What would the consequences be of getting these trade-offs wrong?
How do these impact the way you would prefer to work, if you had more freedom?
How do you explain to new team members how the code is affected by these constraints?
What do you feel OK about compromising on?
What compromise would you go to great lengths to avoid making?
Do the trade-offs affect the quality of your product from a user’s perspective, or is their impact more internal?
What can you do to mitigate the effects of these compromises?
How do you stop compromise becoming a habit?
How do you know if your constraints are absolute or negotiable?
How do challenging constraints improve you as a developer?
If these constraints were magically removed, would you have a clear idea what parts of the code you’d want to change?