Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Since as far as I can remember developers, mostly, love coding. They get anxious when they aren’t typing and consider time spent planning a waste of time.
Well, not every developer, but the young inexperienced ones certainly have those tendencies. I see people in this space reinventing the prodigal wheel over and over, not stopping to check if what they want to accomplish has already been solved (by others in their company, libraries and products, etc.).
The frustrating part is that they waste copious amounts of time and money from their employers or even their own wallets if they are young founders.
The question is: How do you guide them without stifling their growth and enthusiasm (because they have heaps of enthusiasm)?