https://bravenewgeek.com/tag/prototyping/Recent content in Prototyping on Brave New GeekHugoen-usMon, 10 Jun 2013 19:33:31 -0600https://bravenewgeek.com/discipline-in-prototyping/Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:33:31 -0600https://bravenewgeek.com/discipline-in-prototyping/<p>Writing software doesn’t require discipline, but writing <em>good</em> software does. I would argue that the vast majority of tech debt in projects results from PoCs/prototypes/spikes. The code from these typically aren’t intended to make it into production, but they almost invariably do in some capacity.</p> <p>“I won’t bother writing unit tests for this code, it’s purely exploratory.”</p> <p>The code grows…</p> <p>“It’s just a rough proof-of-concept.”</p> <p>…and grows…</p> <p>“It won’t make it to production!”</p>