Posted: March 19, 2022
First Published: March 09, 2016
Get it out the Door!
Sometimes it's more efficient to roll up your digital sleeves and manually complete the task at hand. The elegant solution is not always the best choice all the time.
I have seen plenty of examples of developers going off into the weeds and spending hours upon hours on automating a task that would only take minutes to complete manually. That's like hiring a painter to redo your living room but instead they paint your whole house. Yes, it looks nice but was not necessary.
Take a minute to step back and look at the bigger picture.You are trying to get a product out the door and compromises to the "prefect world" solution may need to be made.