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by gbrayut 2155 days ago
Case in point, one of my favorite system architecture/design blog posts:

Providence: Failure Is Always An Option

https://jasonpunyon.com/blog/2015/02/12/providence-failure-i...

Which has one of my favorite quotes about scope creep:

Kevin and I have essentially become allergic to big projects. We attempt to practice “What can get done by Friday?” driven development. Keeping things small precludes a whole class of errors like “We need a new datastore”, ‘cause that ain’t gettin’ done by Friday. It’s hard to sink a week on something you weren’t supposed to be working on when all you have is a week.