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How about this: Code can add value when it's a lot lower quality than we think it needs to be. Customers will pay for even a crappy solution if you are addressi
by sadness2 7y ago
How about this: Code can add value when it's a lot lower quality than we think it needs to be. Customers will pay for even a crappy solution if you are addressing the right problem. Don't over engineer. But also employ staff for the explicit purpose of gradually increasing the quality of codebases which need to continue to churn.
- mgkimsal 7y ago> But also employ staff for the explicit purpose of gradually increasing the quality of codebases which need to continue to churn. No one ever wants to hear that part.
- sadness2 7y agoThat is either a problem with leadership, or with the way the role is being framed to them. Perhaps this will help your case: https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html
- jmcqk6 7y agoI put it this way: There is no floor to how bad code can be and yet still make people money.
- EdgarVerona 7y agoI agree with your perspective on this, as hard as it can be to admit.