This is exactly how I work. It can seem a slower when you tell your boss you just scraped everything to start over, but it's actually super efficient. It never

This is exactly how I work. It can seem a slower when you tell your boss you just scraped everything to start over, but it's actually super efficient. It never takes nearly as long to rewrite an application. On my latest proejct for example, I took 1 week to think about the problem and play around with different data schemas, then I spent 3 weeks writing the program. It worked well enough, but there were a lot of holes, and it was a god damn mess to read. I rewrote the entire project in two days. That's right, what took me 3 weeks of playing around only took me 2 days the second time around, and it was well worth the effort. The refactoring increased security tremendously, and made many parts of the code so much cleaner and readable it brings a tear to my eye. What's even more important is that I was able to easily add new functionality which would have taken a lot of effort to implement because of the way things were written before. Had I left things the way they were, or tried to refactor without a complete rewrite, I would have just introduced more bugs and got really frustrated.