{"id":24692,"date":"2017-10-06T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24692"},"modified":"2017-10-06T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T18:42:48","slug":"your-app-is-an-onion-why-software-projects-spiral-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/10\/06\/your-app-is-an-onion-why-software-projects-spiral-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Your app is an onion: Why software projects spiral out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Medium<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/swlh\/your-app-is-an-onion-why-software-projects-spiral-out-of-control-bb9247d9bdbd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Your app is an onion: Why software projects spiral out of control<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1200\/1*xaCY1ahp_R0VcCTBc9XQsQ.jpeg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"955\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou start with the best of intentions. You hire a developer to build out your startup idea. But almost every week, it feels like the project needs tweaking. Features start creeping in, and the scope slowly expands.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why I developed this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssgreenberg.name\/SSGSoftware\/OutlinesInHTML\/index.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tool to create outlines in HTM<\/a>.  It is free for the taking.<\/p>\n<p>For the first 30 or so years of my career I worked for people who had enough faith in me that they would let me do proper design before I implemented anything. For the last 6 years of my career, people thought that proper design as described in the article was wasting time. What little design I could do, I had to sneak in and keep hidden from management.<\/p>\n<p>When I had had enough of the insanity, I retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medium has the article Your app is an onion: Why software projects spiral out of control. You start with the best of intentions. You hire a developer to build out your startup idea. But almost every week, it feels like the project needs tweaking. Features start creeping in, and the scope slowly expands. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24693,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692\/revisions\/24693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}