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I want to believe this. Do you have any citations? My experience would suggest shipping higher quality software is a lot cheaper in the long run, but has up-fr
by LanguageGamer 6y ago
I want to believe this. Do you have any citations?
My experience would suggest shipping higher quality software is a lot cheaper in the long run, but has up-front costs that often times startups can't afford.
- sundbry 6y agoYou can afford them if you don't have project managers or sales guys begging for their demoable results of new shiny thing and promising it to others too early and too often.
- nitrogen 6y agoStartups bias toward hiring some less experienced developers by their nature, so they don't always know how to build quickly and solidly. The up front cost is either learning skills of abstraction from scratch, or hiring people who have.
- nicoburns 6y agoMy companies first 5 hires were junior developers. This cost a fair packets (because there were 5 of them!) and led to pretty low quality software (because they were all junior and didn't know what they were doing). They could have shipped higher quality software quicker by hiring 2 senior developers for similar cost.