What I wish I knew when I became CTO

Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO by dangero on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:50AM (#16373776)

Exactly. It’s likely for some projects every line of code you write will in the end be a complete waste. TDD is only worth the trouble assuming any of the project succeeds. If not it may just be more wasted effort. For this reason I think a case can be made to skip TDD on MVP traction tests in some cases.

A friend of mine just had his startup acquired, so his startup was an above average success and he told me 80% of what they built ended up getting scrapped.

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Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO by virtualized on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:40AM (#16375992)

The problem is you don't know which 80% will get scrapped.

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Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO by dangero on Thursday February 15, 2018 @06:45AM (#16383289)

I don’t see this as a problem as long as you make time to add tests later once you are convinced the code will be kept active through user traction.

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