Joel Spolsky says exactly the opposite: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t

Joel Spolsky says exactly the opposite: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... FWIW, I think Spolsky is wrong and this Greer fellow is right, but I don't have any particular evidence either way (and definitely not enough to convince the sort of person who rises to a position of authority in a software organization) other than I've seen attempts to incrementally add features to massive software go horribly wrong more often than I've seen throw-it-out-and-start-over go horribly wrong.