There’s this saying in golf: “There are no pictures on the score card.”
Translated to writing, you might say “They never see your drafts.”
In the context of software development, “No one looks at your code.”
Pretty processes aren’t a prerequisite to pretty outcomes. Make elegance a virtue of your product, not your path.
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Your point is well made but your analogy may be flawed. The hack golfer doesn’t need to show the terrible mess she made whilst getting a reasonable result with the cumulative effect of topped drives or swatted pitching. Rotten code and poor drafts need to be reworked entirley to deliver a reasonable result. The better sports analogy might be winners never quit?
That’s a great saying. Work should be messy, but product definitively needs to be top notch.