A more verbose description of the practice known as "yak shaving" or "letting the perfect get in the way of good". More storytelly, emotional.
It's popular. It appeals to some profiles: The leader who doesn't understand why the worker is taking so long. The worker who doesn't understand why the coworker is redoing his stuff.
If you let a popular saying guide your life, then why live at all? You got to experience those things first hand to understand.
If you never went through the process of trying to make something better, you will never understand the cost.
That's why managers who say this kind of stuff are often despised. They demonstrate to know the sayings but not the experience of living through it. When they do, they are respected.
That is also why the product manager and the technical lead are often two distinct roles. The product manager can't make those calls, it only cares about whether the final product matches expectations. The technical lead can make those calls about technical investment cost, but no calls about the project direction. It keeps a good social dynamic that prevents automatic popular sayings and "I heard that..." stuff to override human behavior.
It's popular. It appeals to some profiles: The leader who doesn't understand why the worker is taking so long. The worker who doesn't understand why the coworker is redoing his stuff.
If you let a popular saying guide your life, then why live at all? You got to experience those things first hand to understand.
If you never went through the process of trying to make something better, you will never understand the cost.
That's why managers who say this kind of stuff are often despised. They demonstrate to know the sayings but not the experience of living through it. When they do, they are respected.
That is also why the product manager and the technical lead are often two distinct roles. The product manager can't make those calls, it only cares about whether the final product matches expectations. The technical lead can make those calls about technical investment cost, but no calls about the project direction. It keeps a good social dynamic that prevents automatic popular sayings and "I heard that..." stuff to override human behavior.