OT: Crazy Programming

[Peter Hansen]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
> Max M wrote:
> >
> > And when the bridge is halfway done the customeres rarely asks for the
> > bridge to be 10 meters longer and with 4 lanes instead of 3.
> 
> Maybe if customers who commission computer programs
> were educated to regard this as just as unreasonable
> as it would obviously be when commissioning a bridge,
> things might be better...

XP takes the view that this is not an entirely unreasonable
thing for software.  Software is rather more malleable than
bridges, and can handle significantly greater change at much
later stages of development (when developed in an appropriately
agile fashion, such as with XP).

Now asking for your bridge to be a skyscraper instead is 
just going too far, even for software....

-Peter