6. Other difficult aspects

• A balance between the lack of design for a piece of software and overemphasis on structure.

• For example,

  • lack of design leads to endless cutting of corners:

    • "Just ship this one and fix the problem in the next release."

  • overemphasis leads to multiple delays and unnecessary reorganizations:

    • "new structure is so much better..."

• An organization has to do this despite changes of personnel, direction, and management structure.