Phillip J. Eby is a smart guy. From his post Chandler begins recovery from XML (which was also featured here):
The cost of adding things you don’t need is really, really high. Luckily, OSAF believes that it’s more important to get things right, than it is to keep throwing money down a rathole to justify the money already spent. I’ve certainly worked for organizations where the reverse is true, though, including one that threw away tens of millions of dollars trying to replace a small, well-designed Python application with an expensive piece of “enterprise” crapware. Ah, the things I could’ve done with that budget! Well, probably I just would’ve given everybody raises and maybe hired a few more people. Or maybe spun off my group as a company that would sell the software to other companies. Heck, we could’ve used it to buy free sodas for life for everybody working in the company and got more value for the investors than what was actually done with the money!
But I digress. The point is this: delaying feature investments good, sunk cost fallacy bad. Any questions?
Which reminds me: I want to start and publish a list of people that get it.
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