The reality of things is, though, that at many (most?!) companies the pipeline IS indeed flawed BUT must work. In other words for various reasons it's been bui

The reality of things is, though, that at many (most?!) companies the pipeline IS indeed flawed BUT must work. In other words for various reasons it's been built flawed. Speed, idiocy, politics, whatever. At some point, you have various choices to pay your technical debt: - actually pay it(50%+- work force full time on this, forever - hey, it works long term, but only short term gains means bonus pay check, and making things square isn't as fun as building new stuff) - patch shit up so it kinda works and hope to leave before it's too horrible (what most do) - dissolve the company/product (eventually happens, almost inevitable over long enough periods of time - specially when people got tired of the shit and rebuilt everything anew - then the cycle starts again) This blog post uses the 2nd solution (the most common).