Blog » The perils of indecision
I was driving home from Cardiff on Saturday (a long story which I won't go into here) when another driver nearly pulled out in front of me on a roundabout. The fundamental reason that this other driver very nearly caused an accident was that they couldn't decide whether it was safe to pull onto the roundabout or not, and therefore they didn't commit one way or the other until it was too late. Their indecision, as I said, very nearly caused an accident.
Whilst not normally so drastic, indecision is also bad when it comes to delivering software. It is often better to make a wrong decision than to make no decision at all, although obviously, it's better to make the right decision. Unfortunately, not being blessed with hindsight, we don't always know whether we have made the right decision until after the event. This is why it's better to make a decision and even better to make a decision at the latest responsible point in time and make decisions that don't lead is down a dead end that we can't get out of.
How do we make sure we do this - well unfortunately there is no substitute for experience.
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