Demo-driven development is a great forcing function and it can work. Also when you demo something to the management/stakeholders, you communicate progress, and

Demo-driven development is a great forcing function and it can work. Also when you demo something to the management/stakeholders, you communicate progress, and even can get some additional funding/budget/time. When you demoing for yourself/team, you can get more confidence in yourself and some dopamine. This can be relevant: My approach to building large technical projects (mitchellh.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36161397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36161397