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Re:Demo-Driven Development by commandlinefan on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:37AM (#27423826)
> all you want to do is give a great demo

And any time spent on the non-visible portions of the project (at least 50% of the value) are seen as "waster" because there's nothing to demo.

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Re:Demo-Driven Development by fruityrudy on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:09PM (#27427816)
Exactly. The biggest mistake engineers make is thinking non-technical people think the way they do. They don’t.

Everyone else is thinking about getting new customers, and mostly with new features.

They only love to get into the details when product market fit is not working and they need to buy some time and get the investors off their back by justifying some large technical rewrite.

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