notionmind

The most expensive belief in this category is that structural problems require structural replacement. They usually do not. What Software Architecture Consulting is actually for is working out which parts of a system are genuinely holding you back, which is a narrower and cheaper question than most proposals imply.

The most expensive decision in a software project is made before anyone writes code. It is the choice between building the smallest thing that proves an assumption and building something designed to carry a business. mvp development suits the first situation and actively harms the second.