Aren't you leaving out the opportinity cost there? Yeah, I spent X amount of salary by not implementing something people want, but I missed Y amount of revenue for 3 months while we built the wrong thing.
If you look at it one way it's not all that expensive and you can say "Hey, it's only 64K, in the grand scheme it's not all that bad." It's only a few weeks of time, maybe.
On the other hand you see that there is real money involved. it's not free.
As, as you say, if the team had completed a minimal marketable feature, you might be making more money by now instead of writing off a mistake.
Aren't you leaving out the opportinity cost there? Yeah, I spent X amount of salary by not implementing something people want, but I missed Y amount of revenue for 3 months while we built the wrong thing.
ReplyDeleteI didn't write it, I just found it.
ReplyDeleteIt is an interesting bit, though.
If you look at it one way it's not all that expensive and you can say "Hey, it's only 64K, in the grand scheme it's not all that bad." It's only a few weeks of time, maybe.
On the other hand you see that there is real money involved. it's not free.
As, as you say, if the team had completed a minimal marketable feature, you might be making more money by now instead of writing off a mistake.