Reminder: Getting BDUF Wrong Is Expensive

Published 09 April 08 06:39 AM | andersnoras 

Last November my family and I move into a brand new apartment. Since we’ve moved in, we’ve had builders coming in to fix things over and over again. Today they started to “refactor” the wiring in our kitchen. Maybe I should get this picture framed as a reminder of not to trust Big Design Upfront (which is the way they build stuff).

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The carpenter has a rather agile aporach to his work, and he’ll be tearing down parts of the kitchen to replace the entire wall tomorrow. Luckily, I’m not paying for this.

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# Anders Norås' Blog said on April 15, 2008 2:35 PM:

Last week I wrote a short anecdote about getting big, upfront design wrong . The next chapter is on quick

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