Allowing (encouraging even) the paying down of technical debt is the real solution. Build the prototypes fast and broken, if they catch on then fix them. This was the way things were once done, and how most of the billions were originally made.

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jasfi a year ago | parent [-]

Not too broken, or you waste a lot of time fixing bugs. Rather build prototypes minimally but working well.

	▲	blitzar a year ago \| parent [-]
		The challenge is convincing management that a 200 person-hour prototype that looks good and "works" needs another 1000+ person hours to button up - or take the promotion, hop to the competition and then it is not-your-problem ...