Both the initial bug hunt and this one were by far the Hammertime tasks that took the longest—I have a lot of bugs I can list in lots of areas, so nearly every time the instructions call for a 5-minute timer I take at least twice as long adding bugs in that category. Plus this time I also added some bugs I just forgot to think of on the first try, as well as things from my Workflowy that can also be conceptualized as bugs.
I think this is useful in that it lets me organize and systematize these things and keep them all in once place. Though nearly nothing I think of is actually new. So I’m not sure if this is so much more useful than the other techniques that it justifies spending so much time on it. I guess we’ll see to what extent this helps me actually solve bugs going forward!
Both the initial bug hunt and this one were by far the Hammertime tasks that took the longest—I have a lot of bugs I can list in lots of areas, so nearly every time the instructions call for a 5-minute timer I take at least twice as long adding bugs in that category. Plus this time I also added some bugs I just forgot to think of on the first try, as well as things from my Workflowy that can also be conceptualized as bugs.
I think this is useful in that it lets me organize and systematize these things and keep them all in once place. Though nearly nothing I think of is actually new. So I’m not sure if this is so much more useful than the other techniques that it justifies spending so much time on it. I guess we’ll see to what extent this helps me actually solve bugs going forward!