[zer8k]

That's your PMness speaking.

PMs never consider who will manage the code down the line. They never consider the implied difficulty multiplier because if you can't party poker it, you can't build it! That's what the agile ninjas say! Code that is "kinda bad but ok" will end up being the cause of a SEV0 eventually. This kind of tradeoff is made by management because the entire field of software engineering is a joke to them.

There's a trade off to be made. But it isn't the one posited. Creating code that is manageable implies it's better than "kinda bad but ok" but not all the way to a magnum opus in software engineering.

Leave decisions like these to the engineers. If management isn't willing to give "significant additional resources" to engineers they get what they pay for. Enjoy your extremely high turnover. Of course, it'll never be your fault. The engineers will also suffer the consequences. It would be nice to see even one PM eat shit for their terrible project management decisions done in the name of "agile".

[tristor]

This rant doesn't seem to address my comment, and seems to be an expression of your existing anti-PM bias.

[deepspace]

> Leave decisions like these to the engineers.

Maybe for a 1.1x increase in features, but for 1.5x (provided the new features solve actual customer problems), I will choose the genie every time. /PM