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Addison-Wesley (Fred Brooks)

1 resource from Addison-Wesley (Fred Brooks) we point founders to, and the questions each answers.

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This is the source of the second-system effect, the exact failure mode in your question. Brooks describes how the second system a person designs is the most dangerous, because they cram in every feature and refinement they held back the first time. Read the second-system chapter to recognize the urge in yourself before it bloats your rebuild into something slow to ship and worse than what it replaced.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

From Addison-Wesley (Fred Brooks) by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. 336 pages

  • The second system tempts you to over-build with deferred features
  • Confidence from version one is exactly what makes version two risky
  • Discipline about scope is what keeps a rebuild from ballooning
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Answers When is the right moment to stop iterating on the MVP and rebuild it properly, and how do I avoid the second-system rewrite trap?
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