[renewedrebecca]

I've never seen a PoC that was allowed to have the time to be cleaned up properly to make it to the Good Enough phase. Management types tend to want to take the PoC and move it directly to production and assume you're incompetent if you push back.

[bramblerose]

In my experience it's often the _developer of the PoC_ that goes "oh, this will just need a little bit of cleanup" rather than clearly communicating "this PoC has validated risks X and Y, but we still need to mitigate risks A and B and the current implementation has taken shortcuts which introduces risks D and E".

[zeroonetwothree]

That’s why I try to make my POCs at least 80% as good as production in terms of code quality. Much easier to fix that last 20% later than if you had started at 20% and have to fix 80%. And usually it doesn’t take longer, you just have to have more intentionality with the changes you are making.