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It’s also easy compared to solving new problems, so it can be an emotionally safe way of feeling productive. Failure is difficult to measure until the abstracti
by hesdeadjim 6y ago
It’s also easy compared to solving new problems, so it can be an emotionally safe way of feeling productive. Failure is difficult to measure until the abstraction falls flat on its face months later, at which point it can be chalked up to the demons of “changing requirements”.
- zbentley 6y agoThat is a very, very important point; well put. The "of course it sucks: changing requirements!" boogeyman means one of two things: "the code was written to do the wrong thing because requirements changed/weren't communicated" or "the code was hard to change when it needed to do a new thing". Figuring out which of those two is in play is very important.