When coding, be prepared to put it in the garbage bin! If you're prepared for this, you can code things more quickly, and not worry about the code slowing you d

When coding, be prepared to put it in the garbage bin! If you're prepared for this, you can code things more quickly, and not worry about the code slowing you down later. This works when you're unsure exactly what to build and need to iterate (agile). First build is an iteration, not arbitrary "sprints" or "increments"! The cost of rebuilding MUST be budgeted though. If you don't have this freedom, things are bound to suck one way or another. Then, next best thing, build it as simple as you can, and put effort into making it composable and pluggable. So you retain freedom to swap out components. This is also an investment, and takes some more time and effort. If you even can't even have that, results are bounded by those restrictions.