A personal story about 10× development
Let me tell you about one of my personal stories.<p>The project I got transferred to was the thing of nightmares.<p>Not deterred, I hacked into it a shitty solution and shipped it very fast. I shipped it so fast that suddenly I had everyone's attention. And I shipped another thing super fast and got more attention. One day, I said "this needs to go", and everybody listened, architects and directors alike. 6 months later, most of the code was replaced by my code or something originating from it. Every projects and features delivered on time with great appreciation of the clients.<p>You have to make it like software development is not a problem at all in the eye of your client and never never go behind the line where this is not true. The day software development is a problem, you lose. You must deliver software like you're delivering a book from amazon, <i>no matter what</i>. Because then, you got credit to make things better, which creates a positive loop. In that particular instance, I used some rushed victories to get more credits to make things clean later on. The guys who say they can make things clean but never ship and never win any battle against a deadline are just funny anyway.<p>To be honest, I took some fights in my career. I was fighting some dudes in every project. But don't fool yourself: if you're not really capable of making things better, then fighting is useless, just improve. You win the fights because the managers are on your side and you get them on your side by making software development not a problem at all.<p><i>edited</i>