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Blog Articles
Engineering Wants to Rewrite!
Few words are more dreaded by product managers than being told by engineering: “No more new features! We need to stop and rewrite! Our code base is a mess, it can’t keep up with the number of users, it’s a house of cards, we can’t maintain it, the site is a dog!”
That Dog Won't Hunt
In the previous article I argued for some very significant changes to the way most teams produce software. Several of you wrote to me and asked that I elaborate on my final point, which had to do with the fact that once you have a product definition that works, you can’t just “piecemeal” it up and expect the same results. I believe this is a hugely important point, and gets to the underlying reason for a great many failed products and wasted releases.