Comments on: 5 Favorite Excuses to Avoid Fixing Your Architecture http://hackerboss.com/5-favorite-techniques-to-avoid-fixing-your-architecture/ Developing software and managing development teams. Mon, 07 May 2012 11:50:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Ville Laurikarihttp://hackerboss.com/5-favorite-techniques-to-avoid-fixing-your-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 Ville Laurikari Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:25:41 +0000 http://hackerboss.com/?p=1191#comment-1170 I agree that you should definitely not change your architecture (or worse, rewrite from scratch) for no reason. Certainly I'm not saying you should stop fixing bugs and introducing features. In fact, there's almost never a good (business) reason to do that.But sometimes, although rarely, it's the architecture that is slowing down you compared to competition. Note that I'm using the term architecture here quite loosely. Often it's possible to do an architectural update "on the side" without stopping all other work.Thanks for your comment and the links, they all make for really good reading. I agree that you should definitely not change your architecture (or worse, rewrite from scratch) for no reason. Certainly I’m not saying you should stop fixing bugs and introducing features. In fact, there’s almost never a good (business) reason to do that.

But sometimes, although rarely, it’s the architecture that is slowing down you compared to competition. Note that I’m using the term architecture here quite loosely. Often it’s possible to do an architectural update “on the side” without stopping all other work.

Thanks for your comment and the links, they all make for really good reading.

]]> By: Slobodan Blazeskihttp://hackerboss.com/5-favorite-techniques-to-avoid-fixing-your-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-1160 Slobodan Blazeski Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:21:43 +0000 http://hackerboss.com/?p=1191#comment-1160 How about our system is online and facing serious competition. If we stop fixing bugs and introducing features and instead spend time on luxuries like fixing our architecture we'll be closing doors in less than a year. Then nobody will care how good our architecture is.http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html How about our system is online and facing serious competition. If we stop fixing bugs and introducing features and instead spend time on luxuries like fixing our architecture we’ll be closing doors in less than a year. Then nobody will care how good our architecture is.

http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html
http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html

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