Comments on: Technical Debt http://www.richardlord.net/blog/technical-debt Actionscript/Flex, PHP and Java developer Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:46:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: polyGeek http://www.richardlord.net/blog/technical-debt/comment-page-1#comment-29673 polyGeek Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:40:37 +0000 http://www.bigroom.co.uk/blog/technical-debt/#comment-29673 I always encourage my clients to let me build a prototype first. That way I can write quick and dirty code and get something in front of them right away. The idea is that will help reduce development time in the future by paying up front for a prototype. Incurring debt in your analogy. Problem is that clients see the prototype and encourage me to develop off of it thereby turning a good investment in time into a bad one. Well they ever learn? :) I always encourage my clients to let me build a prototype first. That way I can write quick and dirty code and get something in front of them right away. The idea is that will help reduce development time in the future by paying up front for a prototype. Incurring debt in your analogy.

Problem is that clients see the prototype and encourage me to develop off of it thereby turning a good investment in time into a bad one.

Well they ever learn? :)

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