/technologies/businessofengineering/b/blog/posts/and-the-kitchen-sinkEarly in my consultancy, I was eager to please. First clients aren&#39;t easy to find! But this particular client was working on a new microcontroller implementation of an existing product. It started as a simple way to control the system, but as opportuen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/businessofengineering/b/blog/posts/and-the-kitchen-sinkTue, 21 Oct 2014 10:51:18 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:2305e909-37c7-4588-854d-c703551bb698Workshopshed1<p>There&#39;s a principle of &quot;Extreme Programming&quot; called <span class="st">YAGNI or &quot;You arn&#39;t going to need it&quot;. The idea is that you should avoid adding functionality early as it will impede development and if it&#39;s needed it can be added later.</span></p><p><span class="st">I wonder if this can be applied to hardware too or if the cost of change makes that approach equally unworkable.</span></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=18735&AppID=96&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">