which was written by the developers of one generation of Visual Studio about the product they wished they could have built (which would have been much much cooler.) Granted there is a problem of training and bringing people on board quickly but that might mean you end up writing a lot of documentation and explaining things to people.
The royal road to fast development is to have a framework ready for the kind of application you're developing, maybe best expressed in this book
https://www.amazon.com/Software-Product-Lines-Practices-Patt...
which was written by the developers of one generation of Visual Studio about the product they wished they could have built (which would have been much much cooler.) Granted there is a problem of training and bringing people on board quickly but that might mean you end up writing a lot of documentation and explaining things to people.