> I spent more time understanding the problem than writing code. This. Yet more often than I would like the challenge is not understanding the business side of

> I spent more time understanding the problem than writing code. This. Yet more often than I would like the challenge is not understanding the business side of the side problem but dealing with the existing code... Overall I find that each one of the three time buckets are equally important and I strive to iterate quickly between them. Pretty often the existing code somehow challenges the assumptions I made in the two previous steps, both business-wise and design-wise.