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I think the latter is the only tenable solution. The former presupposes that A is right, which is unknown a priori. It could very well be that A made a mistake
by ethbro 8y ago
I think the latter is the only tenable solution.
The former presupposes that A is right, which is unknown a priori. It could very well be that A made a mistake, and B caught and corrected it! Or that B had a flash of genius and saw a better way that A missed.
Which is how we arrived at, and still use in physical engineering, waterfall design. Its strengths were never meant to be adaptability to customer needs, but rather fully specified and communicated interfaces between components. Which is not nothing.
- ehmish 8y agoThe former has happened a number of times, for example with Kelly Johnston and Lockheed martin's Skunk Works, or many other institutions with charismatic dictatatorial engineers at the helm (Tesla, Linux, Microsoft). I'm definitely not saying that their respective leaders don't make bad decisions, but rather that a suboptimal solution, consistently implemented results in a better outcome than an inconsistent solution "optimised" by individuals along the way.