https://mostafakhalil.eu/post/ Recent content in Posts on Mostafa Khalil https://mostafakhalil.eu/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://mostafakhalil.eu/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo en Wed, 27 May 2026 21:53:13 +0000 https://mostafakhalil.eu/post/accidental-complexity/ Wed, 27 May 2026 21:53:13 +0000 https://mostafakhalil.eu/post/accidental-complexity/ <h3 id="a-quick-change">A Quick Change</h3> <p><em>&ldquo;This should be a quick change&rdquo;</em> - Said the engineer who ended up taking two weeks making the quick change.</p> <p>It is not uncommon for a seemingly benign change - one for which there is a general consensus that it is very easy; maybe too easy to even receive a concrete estimate - to end up taking longer than expected.</p> <p>A single delay can cascade in an entire workstream. Teams have been getting better at dealing with this type of delays though: engineers know how to raise their hand early, and short iterative sprints catch incomplete work.</p>