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Re:Suffering-oriented programming by StavrosK on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @06:41AM (#3561371)
Where's the payoff? All I see is a system that had to work first time, so "agile" wasn't even an option. If there were an auto-update mechanism to get everyone on the latest version, it seems to me that you might have delivered months earlier and polished it over time.
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Re:Suffering-oriented programming by bwarp on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @10:19AM (#3562061)
It didn't have to work first time. People expected it to work first time and the expectation was fulfilled. Would you deliver a stinking turd first time and spend 6 months fixing it? That appears to be the way people want to work these days but believe me the customers are fucked off with it. The entire industry is getting a bad rep due to this laziness.
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Re:Suffering-oriented programming by StavrosK on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @12:03PM (#3562583)
You're making bad assumptions. You can either deliver a "stinking turd" in a month and spend 5 months fixing it, or spend 6 months developing and deliver the whole thing in one go.
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