Incrementalism
July 19, 2008
More on change to an existing system. Development projects spend about 80% of their time (I made the figure up) just to recreate the existing feature set. I would think that users would ask why the heck we waste so much money just to get back to the starting line, but I suspect the reason is they have no idea what we’re doing, why we’re doing it or even if it really needs to be done. There are a number of good reasons why we have to recreate the world every time, but more to the point we like our incompatible, disruptive technologies. It makes us feel creative. Personally, I got tired to writing the same basic business all the time.
