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Michele Marques wrote:
>
> Bruce Byfield writes:
> > Everything Andrew says is true, except for one thing: left to
> > themselves, the average group of programmers will tinker endlessly.
>
> Feature creep is not always the fault of programmers. In my experience,
> marketing and sales often want new features added in at the last minute, as
> well. Larger features might be postponed for future releases, but "small"
> changes tend to spring up all over the place at the last moment. And even
> larger features can become last minute necessities when a large enough
> customer is insistent.
>
True enough, but that only extends my point.
In a perfect company, someone needs to be able to tell the
programmers, "It's good enough. We ship in a month."
However, a perfect company also needs a chief programmer or CTO who
says, "We can't add a new feature, no matter how attractive, unless
we delay shipping for two weeks."
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