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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Nothing More Permanent Than A Temporary Solution</h1> |
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2019-07-29 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/things-i-learnt/">#things i learnt</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/code/">#code</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/temporary-solutions/">#temporary solutions</a> |
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<p>Depending on where you look, "Nothing more permanent than a temporary |
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solution" is either an old Russian proverb or a quote by Milton Friedman. |
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Thing is, temporary solutions, unless you think about the future to fix them, |
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will become permanent.</p> |
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<p>A temporary solution may appear either as a proof-of-concept or due some |
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restrained deadline. You may create perfect <a href="/books/things-i-learnt/spec-first">system |
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specs</a>, you may have a perfect |
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understanding of the whole <a href="/books/things-i-learnt/gherkin">in your Gherkin |
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files</a> but, at some point, you'll put some |
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small script to fix a minor problem, or do a "not so good" solution to a point |
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due to deadlines.</p> |
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<p>This happens and unless you take steps to get rid of those, you'll end up with |
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a bunch of spaghetti code pretty fast. And that will snowball to a point that |
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you won't be able to manage the project.</p> |
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<p>Once a scrum master suggested that we came with an idea to our product manager |
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to do something akin to "Every three sprints, we'll focus on product value; |
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the fourth one is ours to fix the things that are annoying us". I don't think |
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we ever talking to the product manager about this, but we managed to open |
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issues on our ticket system about the small warts we left behind, specially |
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due deadlines. So there we had, a specially crafted bug type for "technical |
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debt" which we never actually took the time to fix.</p> |
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<p>Unless you have a pretty good safety net to fix those, they will life forever. |
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And it may be a better option to tell "we can't deliver in time" than adding |
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(yet another) temporary solution, as hard as it is to convince the higher ups |
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that you can't deliver the product with a temporary solution.</p> |
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