Managers will have to decide which is more valuable – having the software working sooner and better or having the output of one or two people. If having the system doesn’t bring more value to the business than having one more person working, perhaps the system shouldn’t be built.
“Avoiding mistakes takes discipline, care and a good deal of patience, as Kent alludes to. It may feel like you’re in “the zone” of maximum productivity, and the code is just flowing out of you, but that feeling is usually an illusion. More likely what’s flowing out of you is buggy, unreadable code that will eat up the bulk of your productive time later. Or someone else’s productive time.”
“Can old codgers still code?”, Kent Beck
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