The age of cargo cult Agile must end

Re:The age of cargo cult Agile must end by maerF0x0 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:03PM (#34898664)

>The way I assess where lines cross is by canvassing the opinion of skilled developers that I know. And the answer surprises a lot of folks. Developers find poor quality code significantly slows them down within a few weeks. So there's not much runway where the trade-off between internal quality and cost applies. Even small software efforts benefit from attention to good software practices, certainly something I can attest from my experience.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html

If you expect your business to exist more than a few weeks from now, opt for quality implementation over "ship it" hacks that cause compounding costs into the future.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The age of cargo cult Agile must end by pif on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:21PM (#34899055)

> Developers find poor quality code significantly slows them down within a few weeks.

By the way, I'd like to know which kind of software those "skilled" developers are used to work on. If it is the umpteenth CRUD web application, several weeks can correspond to a few releases. In other fields, a few releases is a matter of years, and even only a few months of customer feedback is a treasure that smart developers don't give up easily.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The age of cargo cult Agile must end by pif on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:14PM (#34898884)

There are hacks like "everything in a huge global object", and technical debts like "no unit tests for internal detail and no detailed software structure documentation until we know which code is actually worth to maintain".

[ Parent | on HN ]