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Re:Why Marketing and BD Professionals Should Learn to Code by jgreenough on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @06:01PM (#3454114)
This type of conversation begs the "put-up or shut-up answer" and if it works you get a new feature. the real trick is actually dealing with long-term support for something that might have started out as a hack. Features and short-term tests usually need to be refactored for long-term health. If you don't do the work up front be prepared to do a bit later, just make the choice consciously.
Re:Why Marketing and BD Professionals Should Learn to Code by laconian on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @06:15PM (#3454175)
NOnononononono.

If it "works" superficially it will be considered good enough by management. High fives all around, the checklist is ticked off, and everybody moves on -- except for the poor developers have to maintain the mess.

Nimbleness doesn't mean creating crushing technical debt that has to be solved immediately by somebody else. :)