Comments on: The Fallacy of Sunk Cost http://www.brandonsavage.net/the-fallacy-of-sunk-cost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fallacy-of-sunk-cost The personal blog of Brandon Savage. Contains entries of a personal and professional nature focusing on PHP, Apple, LAMP, MySQL and Washington, DC. Wed, 15 May 2013 14:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2-alpha By: Jon Reed http://www.brandonsavage.net/the-fallacy-of-sunk-cost/#comment-3497 Jon Reed Tue, 11 May 2010 16:54:06 +0000 http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1303#comment-3497 I think that “failing quickly” (as detailed by Scrum) is a key factor here. If you continue down the road of creating something you know is not the best solution, you are actively creating technical debt.

It’s must better to raise the fact that something has gone wrong, as quickly as possible, to minimise the failed cost.

It will be much cheaper to do it right, than to do it twice.

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