{"id":45261,"date":"2015-06-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150630-00\/?p=45261\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:16:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:16:53","slug":"20150630-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150630-00\/?p=45261","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: Stretch goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recall that Microspeak is not merely for jargon exclusive to Microsoft, but also for jargon that you need to know. <\/p>\n<p>A project will set some goals, which are things it intends to accomplish. It may also set <i>stretch goals<\/i>, which are things it hopes to accomplish. If you fail to achieve a stretch goal, your project is still a success, but if you make it, your project is even more awesome. A stretch goal could be unrelated to an existing goal. <\/p>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\">\n<p><b>Goals for this release<\/b> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support dynamic widget recolorization. <\/ul>\n<p><b>Stretch goals for this release<\/b> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve throughput by 10% compared to previous version. <\/ul>\n<p><b><a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/03\/21\/1922203.aspx\">Non-goals for this release<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support offline mode. <\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But more often, it takes the form of a higher level of achievement for an existing goal: <\/p>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\"><p>Goal: 40% of the programs will <a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2013\/07\/16\/10434390.aspx\">land<\/a> actual <a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2014\/09\/16\/10558167.aspx\">spend<\/a> within 10% of estimate. Stretch goal: 60%. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Setting a stretch goal is tricky. You want to set it just at the edge of achievability. If you make it unrealistic, then nobody will take it seriously. <\/p>\n<p>You can think of a stretch goal as an &#8220;extra credit&#8221; assignment. You won&#8217;t be penalized for missing it, but making it will earn you kudos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,103],"class_list":["post-45261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Extra credit.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}