Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl...
by JanisL on Friday August 21, 2020 @01:32AM
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There seems to be this version of “done is better than perfect” thinking where people think that aiming for quality in any form will get in the way of getting things done. Where this gets especially pathological is when people assume that the best way to get things done is by explicitly decreasing quality, the underlying flawed assumption being that decreasing quality can be directly traded for a shorter schedule.
I get that “done is better than perfect” but it feels like we’ve swung so hard in that direction that we seem to be largely neglecting stepping back and building the rough roll for the job in all but the largest places who have the luxury of having enough resources to assign a big enough team in the background to do it.