Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl...
by onion2k on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:29AM
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Slow-and-steady, carefully written software isn't tolerated within many product orgs these days.
Rapid iteration is driven by customers not actually knowing what they need. There are places where "slow and steady" development would work, but very often you'd just find out what the customer needs isn't what they've asked for over a much longer period. You'd end up throwing out a lot of the perfectly crafted artisanal code anyway just as you would in the rapid dev version. The main difference is that the customer would have run out of money by then, and failed, and you'd need a new job.
Rapid iteration is driven by customers not actually knowing what they need. There are places where "slow and steady" development would work, but very often you'd just find out what the customer needs isn't what they've asked for over a much longer period. You'd end up throwing out a lot of the perfectly crafted artisanal code anyway just as you would in the rapid dev version. The main difference is that the customer would have run out of money by then, and failed, and you'd need a new job.