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This is becoming less true over time. As enterprises start adopting Lean practices, it becomes obvious to everyone why building something now when you won't use
by mkozlows 11y ago
This is becoming less true over time. As enterprises start adopting Lean practices, it becomes obvious to everyone why building something now when you won't use it for months is waste.
- beat 11y agoIf there's one thing enterprises don't give a flying fsck about, it's waste. After a couple decades of mostly-enterprise development, I've learned something really important - it's better to not be wrong than to be right. Thus the overbuilding and risk aversion. Frankly, this is the only real advantage startups have over the enterprise - the ability to take risk.
- mgkimsal 11y ago"it's better to not be wrong than to be right" My limited experience in that world was that there often wasn't a really good way of identifying when something was in fact 'right', only that it wasn't broken (whenever it was reviewed/inspected). New info could always come along which would call in to question previous decisions, and new people would come in with different (or no) understanding of previous stages. Couple that with organizations in which everyone is free to say 'no' to things, or they're free to chime in with demands without having to actually commit resources for dev or support, and you get weird situations (I've got a few war stories, as I'm sure many people here do too).