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By Shawn Hartsock (author)

Originally published October 18, 2006.

Republished from Thoughts and Ideas. The original writing is preserved; topic and concept suggestions are generated metadata, not part of the original article.

I usually ask candidates for Software Engineer positions the following questions about their project work:

How do you know when you are done?

How do you know when you have succeeded?

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