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But why it seems legit to me
Discovery
Design
Oops! A breaking requirement slipped through everyone's awareness
Rediscover
Redesign
Redevelop
Oops! Features be creepin'. Sales sold the customer these shiny new things, marketing wants to rework that feature, and -- now that we're testing -- this assumption here was wrong
Panicked micro-discovery
Hack design to accomodate above bouquet of oopsie-daisies
Develop based on the new hacky patchwork design
M U H M U H M U H M A X I M U M S P A G H E T T I F I C A T I O N
Suggest rewriting the MVP now (that we actually know requirements) to avoid the tsunami of tech debt that will wash away devs and immolate mountains of cash maintaining the current monstrosity
Get laughed at by manager with a sunk-cost fallacy twinkle in his or her eye
Maintain monstrosity codebase with a velocity not dissimilar to dragging one's nuts through broken glass