yes, we can

Architects tend to say yes. Yes, the deadline is no problem. Yes, we meet the budget. Yes, we can easily change that.

"It’s so easy to say yes. Yes to yet another feature, yes to an overly optimistic deadline, yes a mediocre design, yes, yes, yes. We all want to be loved.
But the love won’t keep you warm for long when you’ve taken on yet another obligation that you don’t whole-heartedly believe in. You very quickly become trapped in a pit of guilt when the stack of things you’ve said yes to loom so high that you can’t even see the things you really should be doing." (source: 37signals, by Jesus A. Domingo)

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