Are you at your Plateau of Productivity yet?

Here’s a little story:

Imagine you’ve been attending that conference where you first learned about that cool new thing, let’s say, something like Test Driven Development. Your first reaction might have been “Meh, not for me”. You were not seeing the value just yet and could already imagine yourself having to explain your manager why development of a new feature is taking so much time. But then, over time, the idea of TDD starts to sink in and you start to experiment with writing tests first.

Week by week, you become more enthusiastic and really start to grasp how powerful TDD is. You start to tell your colleagues about it, offer to run some internal demos, and even decide to write a couple of blog posts about it. Since you’re not afraid to talk in public, you manage to convince your boss that you doing a full-blown presentation is a great idea. And since it is, and you did a great job, you even got accepted at a local event to convince the community about how great TDD is. And hey, and since you’re a millennial, you record a YouTube video of that presentation and decide to invest in building a real Pluralsight training on the many advantages of TDD.

In the meantime, you’ve been applying this test-first mindset quite rigorously and have discovered that it is much harder than you thought. You and your team wrote tons of small and focused unit tests and the number of regression decreased significantly. So even though your manager doesn’t like the extra time it costs to build a new…