retrospective

• When Rushed Timelines Cost Us a Mercedes: A Retrospective on the Most Expensive Bug

  17 May 2023 — In the fast-paced world of software development, delivering features quickly is often seen as a marker of success. But speed comes with its own set of challenges, especially when critical safeguards like thorough testing and robust design are compromised. This is a story of how a rushed timeline and inadequate testing combined to produce one of the most expensive bugs my team has ever faced – an incident that taught us invaluable lessons about the cost of shortcuts in software development.