Sublime

As the software stack for any development effort has exploded over the last 10-plus years,7 organizations with strict tool standards have been at a distinct disadvantage, as their process for adding new tools has been too slow to take advantage of rapid advances.

However, these systems have an unfortunate tendency to concentrate power often excessively,

Each quarter our department heads presented their goals and identified dependencies.

At the end of the quarter, a lone HR person ran around like a Jack Russell, nipping at managers’ heels to get updated numbers before the board meeting.

But another turn of the tech cycle would arrive, and as Microsoft grew more powerful, a sect of programmer activists struck back by forming the open-source software movement. As Tim O’Reilly, the tech publishing magnate, described the situation in his 1998 blog post “Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet,” “Despite all Microsoft’s efforts

The key to pursuing speed and adaptability at the same time is to view software technology as a continuously evolving asset, instead of something that is built once and then maintained.