The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition

by Andy Hunt

Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.

Before you embark on any code-based prototyping, make sure that everyone understands that you are writing disposable code. Prototypes can be deceptively attractive to people who don’t know that they are just prototypes. You must make it very clear that this code is disposable, incomplete, and unable to be completed.

What to Say When Asked for an Estimate You say “I’ll get back to you.”