New chapter: Temporary/Permanent Solution

content/books/things-i-learnt/_index.md

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 		* [Optimization Is For Compilers](optimization)
 		* [Units Makes Things Clear](units)
 		* [If It Doesn't Run On Your Computer, You Have A Problem](run-locally)
+		* [Nothing More Permanent Than A Temporary Solution](permanent-solution)
 	* Making Things Go
 		* [The Config File Is Friend](config-file)
 		* [Command Line Options Are Weird, But Helpful](command-line-options)

content/books/things-i-learnt/config-file/index.md

@@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ you'll find that you're half-way through it.
 [^1]: In other words, they have a [time to
   live](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live).
 
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content/books/things-i-learnt/permanent-solution/index.md

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+title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Nothing More Permanent Than A Temporary Solution"
+date = 2019-07-29
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "code", "writing code", "temporary solutions"]
++++
+
+Depending on where you look, "Nothing more permanent than a temporary
+solution" is either an old Russian proverb or a quote by Milton Friedman.
+Thing is, temporary solutions, unless you think about the future to fix them,
+will become permanent.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+A temporary solution may appear either as a proof-of-concept or due some
+restrained deadline. You may create perfect [system
+specs](/books/things-i-learnt/spec-first), you may have a perfect
+understanding of the whole [in your Gherkin
+files](/books/things-i-learnt/gherkin) but, at some point, you'll put some
+small script to fix a minor problem, or do a "not so good" solution to a point
+due to deadlines.
+
+This happens and unless you take steps to get rid of those, you'll end up with
+a bunch of spaghetti code pretty fast. And that will snowball to a point that
+you won't be able to manage the project.
+
+Once a scrum master suggested that we came with an idea to our product manager
+to do something akin to "Every three sprints, we'll focus on product value;
+the fourth one is ours to fix the things that are annoying us". I don't think
+we ever talking to the product manager about this, but we managed to open
+issues on our ticket system about the small warts we left behind, specially
+due deadlines. So there we had, a specially crafted bug type for "technical
+debt" which we never actually took the time to fix.
+
+Unless you have a pretty good safety net to fix those, they will life forever.
+And it may be a better option to tell "we can't deliver in time" than adding
+(yet another) temporary solution, as hard as it is to convince the higher ups
+that you can't deliver the product with a temporary solution.
+
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content/books/things-i-learnt/run-locally/index.md

@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ If we had the chance to not use it and run all the development and tests on
 our own computers, I have the feeling we could deliver the product 2-3 months
 earlier.
 
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