> Just plain prototype something through many iterations until is good then document This is always the best. Iterative prototyping gives you continuous hindsi

> Just plain prototype something through many iterations until is good then document This is always the best. Iterative prototyping gives you continuous hindsight over design and implementation, _nothing_ beats that. Unless you're doing something trivial in which hindsight would only serve as temptation for yak-shaving. Then it's not so good. Unless you don't have deadlines, then it's good again.