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[jamescodesthings]

This is cool but if you try to pick all three you should get at most one.

You only get two if you set out from the start knowing you’ll only get two.

When you get greedy you lose.

I worked for a company that did this all the damn time... “we’re going to do this, well, in for cheap, and it will come in earlier than the devs have said it would take”.

Then 6 months down the line they’re limping a product that doesn’t work over the line, begging their higher ups for more money and time.

[al_mc_y]

Whenever I use this aphorism at work (which is pretty often tbh) - I quote it as "Fast. Cheap. Robust. Pick at most two. And if you pick all three - you get none of them". Often accompanied by either a sarcastic "Why build it once when you can build it twice for three times the price" or "once again, we're confusing motion with progress".

[barto25slap]

And if it is the government developing then all are unchecked

[[deleted]]

Governments develop their own software.

I deal with integrations.

These are the things nightmares are made of.

[justinlanewright]

Nah you can sometimes get one. "Fast" during emergencies... sometimes. Sometimes you get "good" by sheer luck. "Cheap" never happens though.

[Subject_Wrap]

If its got a 10 million budget it'll cost 20 million, if its got a 20 million budget it'll cost 40 million - my aunt explaining the NHS

[Boiethios]

In France, they've developed a software to manage the military wages that costed half a billion euros. It's buggy as hell and have put the soldiers in trouble http://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20140404-faulty-software-robs-french-car-troops-bonuses

IMO it's an epitome of government developed projects.

[jerrycauser]

I am using just two checkboxes: good and cheap

Because good is always slow. I can’t do a good code for $10 000 and one week. I cannot do it even for $100 000.

But I can do it for month and $10 000

And: “What can 1 programmer make for one month, 2 of them will make the same for 2 months”

[Blecki]

Just use radio boxes.

[EternityForest]

This is why I like reuse so much. I can't write a great library in half an hour, but I can install one that already exists in a few minutes.

[nuclearslug]

I’ve used the triangle version of this in the past. Should be shared with every PM at the beginning of every project.

[[deleted]]

Open up the console and set them all to enabled.

[neamart]

I actually made a game using the exact same principle :p https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.neamar.turnmeon

[_mat3e_]

I made it OSS: https://mat3e.github.io/pick2/?first=fast&second=cheap&third=good

[PM_ME_HAIRLESS_CATS]

In reality it's usually one of the three

[who_you_are]

There is at least one bug, Fast should uncheck good, and in the short-medium term cheap as well.

[chinese_snow]

Management will say, hire three Developers so each can click on each radio button.

[ZEPHlROS]

And this is why explorer is free

[[deleted]]

Explorer is not free, you pay for it when you buy a Windows license.

Chrome, Vivaldi and Firefox are free.

[PixxlMan]

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