Just Say No: IT Cost Of Ownership’s Dirty Secret
Posted by reppel on July 4, 2009
Maintainable software applications are The Right Thing:
- They take the gut-wrench out fixing bugs and adding features, theoretically keeping us sane.
- In an entropy-sodden world, they are very hard to build.
- Writing code has nothing to do with it. OK. Maybe a little. Perhaps 50%.
There are times when it feels as if deciding what to build is maybe half the picture.
The rest is saying no to building The Wrong Thing .
Building The Right Thing cuts maintenance work because there is no need to change The Wrong Thing. It makes for a decent chance that new features are requested for The Right Reason:
Users LOVE the application and want more.
As opposed to The Wrong Reason:
It doesn’t work right. This pig is is going to need a lot of make-up.
Let Usability Rule.
