> you can make changes much more quickly in a simple system. IME: Doing N features hackishly takes O(n^2) time; Doing them properly takes O(2n). The problem is

> you can make changes much more quickly in a simple system. IME: Doing N features hackishly takes O(n^2) time; Doing them properly takes O(2n). The problem is when management sees a project as a series of several n=1 tasks, instead of one n=n project.