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		rogual on Oct 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does software development take so long? And this is just for a sole developer who knows what he's doing. When you have a team of people at varying levels of ability, a meeting for every decision, JIRA-wielding project managers with burndown charts to keep happy, standards & practices, legal, translators, UI designers, all regularly taking out exclusive locks on each other's time... it's a wonder anything gets done at all.

hex13 on Oct 26, 2016 [–]

It's correct. I've noticed that when I work in a team I work with maybe 10% of my solo efficiency. Just because of this whole team work bullshit and because of legacy code (it takes me often more time to understand how code written by someone works than it would take to write such code from scratch).

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