6 December 2021 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 27 October 2023Shortcuts are always tempting, but it is rarely the right decision to take the shortcut in product development. Certainly, a shortcut may reduce the time required to get a piece of desirable behavior into the system, to make it to the first release, or to resume operations. But you must keep in mind that shortcuts are likely to fail quickly and/or hasten aging. Pile one shortcut on top of another, and suddenly you’re facing a house of cards that requires significant work to fix. There’s no real cure for …
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