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		christophilus on Dec 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1989) [... “We started out by building a prototype, and on top of that prototype we tried to build a product.” Sums up many projects early in my career. I think this should be a must read for anyone whose job involves managing a software project. I’ve personally witnessed every major mistake listed in the first twelve pages.

dpark on Dec 27, 2018 [–]

This is why “build one to throw away” is an anti-pattern. No one ever throws it away, so building it like it’s a prototype means prototype code eventually makes it to production.

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