> "solve this problem as fast as possible, without adding additional costs and using as few developers as possible" Agree with that but from my experience that

> "solve this problem as fast as possible, without adding additional costs and using as few developers as possible" Agree with that but from my experience that's more like 20% of the time. The rest is the various kinds of bullshit development where people are padding resumes, having boss's pet hobby horse forced on them, latest shiny flimflam, etc. (A decent chunk of that 30 years has been contracting and that tends to be at places with problems which might be biasing my sample set.)