New companies can (and likely should) skip this stuff in the beginning because paying the bills takes priority over nearly everything else. Younger companies also have such a high rate of change that it doesn’t make sense to document a process that may change in the next month. But as a company grows, the ratio of processes to projects should ideal

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Bad code gives you feedback, perfect code doesn’t. Err on the side of writing bad code

It’s really easy to write terrible code. But it’s also really easy to write code that follows absolutely every best practice, which has been unit, integration, fuzz, and mutation-tested for good measure – your startup will just run out of money before you finish.... See more