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Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by axod on Thursday January 22, 2009 @12:18PM (#445051)
Agreed. I don't understand why more large companies understand this method...

The best way to build the best X, is to build 5 of them.. by the 5th you're pretty awesome at building X. Seems like too many people believe instead, in meticulous up front design analysis etc etc.

The other point is that in my experience, the rewrites take less and less time to write, as you know more and more.

Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by yef on Thursday January 22, 2009 @03:31PM (#445322)
I agree with you, but the reason is because the managers see four of the iterations as wastes of resources.