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Just as long as you avoid the trick where you complete the POC, and then your manager moves you onto something else and reassigns a junior to productionize the POC.

> reassigns a junior to productionize the POC

At least until the deadline passes and he still doesn't have it working, then you have to do the something else you moved on to _and_ productionize the POC that was already overdue last week.

I 100% agree with this. Have always called it `throw-away development` where you build a prototype just to understanding what it is that you are actually solving/building. Then, once you understand, implement the _actual_ thing you need to, taking the learnings from the throw-away. It takes a _tad_ longer than if you had magically known what to do from the get-go but the learning is invaluable.

The problem when you do 2 'just enough' for it to (barely) work - if you show it to your manager, they'll Ships It and you'll get put on a new project to hack together.