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Quality is about signing your name to your work and being proud of what you ship. It never feels great when what you ship feels more like excuses—a reflection of tight timelines, cut scope and endless constraints.
This means creating an understanding with your colleagues and leaders that your progress will not be linear and predictable and that you should not be judged by your delivery rate (the amount of stuff you ship) but by your learning rate, and by your overall progress toward strategic goals—in other words, by the extent to which you achieve the outco
... See moreA deadline with a flexible scope invites pushback, compromises, and tradeoffs—all ingredients in healthy, calm projects. It’s when you try to fix both scope and time that you have a recipe for dread, overwork, and exhaustion.