The point as applies to individuals extends to projects also:

> Programming system builders have also been exposed to this lesson, but it seems to have not yet been learned. Project after project designs a set of algorithms and then plunges into construction of customer-deliverable software on a schedule that demands delivery of the first thing built.

> [...] plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month (1975)