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Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

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.

Jim Highsmith • EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation

In most computer projects there comes a day when it is discovered that the machine and the manual don't agree. When the confrontation follows, the manual usually loses, for it can be changed far more quickly and cheaply than the machine.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering

Teal Organizations start from the premise that even for routine work, people have a sense of pride and want to do a good job.

Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

Don't try to make it complete from the start. Refine it iteratively as you deliver. Treat deliverables as options, don't take it for granted that everything listed here will actually be delivered.

Gojko Adzic • Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects

Rewrite, Refactor, or Reinvent?

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FDEs tend to write code that gets the job done fast, which usually means – politely – technical debt and hacky workarounds. PD engineers write software that scales cleanly, works for multiple use cases, and doesn’t break. One of the key ‘secrets’ of the company is that generating deep, sustaining enterprise value requires both. BD engineers tend to... See more

They call it feature creep, but that's the polite corporate term that doesn't capture the madness of what actually happens. I've watched it so many times. At first, the product starts clean, elegant and focused. A small team poured their hearts into solving one problem really damn well.

But that's where it all just begins.

One user will write: "I lov... See more

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“Dream in years; plan in months; evaluate in weeks; ship daily.”