[cortesoft]

Sometimes it is, but sometimes it isn’t.

I can remember plenty of times in my career there were some “nice to haves” that we didn’t get to, and not having them continued to waste our time over and over again as we kept putting it off.

Time saving work for our software lifecycle that we spent so much time working around. Some of those things we finally did get to, and then spent the next few months wondering why we hadn’t don’t it before.

[int_19h]

+1, I can think of many things in my career that could have been that much better if we had the time and resources to do all the bells and whistles that we wanted.

[chickensong]

Yeah, this right here. It's a cute and pithy blog post, but it's one-dimensional.

Backlogs may have plenty of dead-ends, but there's just as likely the same amount of legit work that would be useful. For every company with a security breach, there's probably a related ticket that got pushed to the back burner because it wasn't part of the core product roadmap.