> You have customers, backwards compatibility, programmers time, and tons of other "cost" stuff.
None of which matter. The idea being if you are working on a component for version 2.0, even with all these "costs", it's better to iterate quickly. The only thing that is close to mattering is programmers' time, but even that is addressed in the article. Simply that it's faster to fail fast and iterate until you get the correct solution than it is to spend all that time planning.
None of which matter. The idea being if you are working on a component for version 2.0, even with all these "costs", it's better to iterate quickly. The only thing that is close to mattering is programmers' time, but even that is addressed in the article. Simply that it's faster to fail fast and iterate until you get the correct solution than it is to spend all that time planning.