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Software is always 'Pay me now, or pay me later'. In the end I believe you usually always end up paying pretty close to the same, it just depends on if you are
by ProAm 9y ago
Software is always 'Pay me now, or pay me later'. In the end I believe you usually always end up paying pretty close to the same, it just depends on if you are happy with the solution in 18-36 months or hate it.
- bonesss 9y agoThe tricky bit is when opportunity costs come in... "Pay me now" means sacrificing clear opportunities in the visible horizon, "pay me later" does the same thing at an less-controlled future point sacrificing presently unknown opportunities. Personally I much prefer 'pay me now', because 9 times out of 10, IME, some form of technical debt underlies the reasoning about why a team can't do something. 'It always pays to take the pain up front', basically.