Re: Thinking Methodically about building a PoC

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Kasper Adel <karim.adel () gmail com> wrote:
> 1) Get started immediately (MVP), things will break, tune it along the way.

Howdy,

The history of the Panama Canal (both the French failure and the
deadly first two years of the U.S. effort) should offer insight (and
appropriate anecdotes) as to why this is just about always the worst
answer.

The same history also shows how planning moves from the French effort
(an impossible sea-level canal through a river valley that suffers
seasonal floods) to the entirely different engineering which produced
a gigantic man-made lake with flood control dams plus a gravity-driven
lock system to move vessels from sea level to the lake level and back.

They did it very wrong. Then they redid it very right salvaging only a
little of the original effort.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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