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"But you know what, how about we all agree, all of us who write about writing software, to write about this once every year or so. Because there’s this terrible glaring conflict between what sensible managers want and what sensible programmers know. Managers, good managers, want a plan; they want to lock in design constraints so that work can be dealt out and progress tracked and promises kept. Programmers, good programmers, know that they’re not smart enough to get the core design choices right until they’ve built something that works."

Build One to Throw Away. Amen.