{"id":1584,"date":"2012-06-07T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2012-06-07T10:01:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T17:01:16","slug":"the-cost-of-doing-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2012\/06\/07\/the-cost-of-doing-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Doing it Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the saying goes, if a thing is worth doing, it&#8217;s worth doing well.  It has been proven that doing a thing right the first time is most efficient and cost effective.  But what is the cost of doing something wrong?  In terms of money, I&#8217;ve seen cases where something is done incorrectly and then had to redone at a loss of $100k.  In terms of time, you can model it in the following thought experiment.<\/p>\n<p>If a task takes x amount of time to complete and it is done wrong the first time, how long does it take to fix it?\u00c2\u00a0  More than 4x. It takes to x amount of time to complete the task the first time, probably at least x amount of time to find out it was done wrong, another x amount to figure out what the first guy did, and finally x amount to fix it correctly.<\/p>\n<p>We all can agree that time is money and if a task is done incorrectly it may cost at a minimum as much as four times as much as it would cost if done correctly the first time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the saying goes, if a thing is worth doing, it&#8217;s worth doing well. It has been proven that doing a thing right the first time is most efficient and cost effective. But what is the cost of doing something wrong? In terms of money, I&#8217;ve seen cases where something is done incorrectly and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,471],"tags":[704,608,151,705,41],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-py","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}