>Can one afford to be uneconomical? Sometimes. You can always afford to be cheap, too: that may lead the team to spend the right amount or less, but someone wi

>Can one afford to be uneconomical? Sometimes. You can always afford to be cheap, too: that may lead the team to spend the right amount or less, but someone will later spend a lot more, which in SWE parlance is called "re-implement all the basics of computing all over again all the time". I don't know the name of the game where you have to avert that the bigger expenditure comes to hit your team's back. (substitute whatever you want in place of "team": yourself, your firm, your family or clan)