Comment by johnnyanmac
2 years ago
>Because the band-aid with all its ugliness becomes the permanent fix because there is no revenue box to place the work in takes to fix it into
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Especially in my industry, we don't get too many chances to convince the product managers to "go back and actually fit the code". From a business sense, it's a great skill, but business realities equate it to the ability to plug up a dam with a cork.
I just do the boring thing and get it in writing somewhere.
"This will fix the problem for now, BUT it will make _everything_ harder in the long run unless we spend time to do it properly".
Then when they complain about stuff taking longer than it should I can just refer to the ticket/email/meeting memo and remind them that I did say so.