"Business perspective" can be like hill climbing: you evaluate a potential direction based on whether it makes your situation more profitable or less profitable

"Business perspective" can be like hill climbing: you evaluate a potential direction based on whether it makes your situation more profitable or less profitable, regardless of the peculiarities of your local landscape. I think got into TDD for its aesthetic or philosophical appeal. The idea of being able to make reliable software by first writing down what its supposed to do just struck me a poetic and tractable. On the one hand, I spent a lot of time and money going through a dip in productivity while learning all the things to make testing work for me. On the other hand, I eventually emerged from that dip with skills and a mentality that allow me to be productive and relaxed in a way that I wouldn't have thought was possible.