Let’s dive deep into why even the best teams trade quality for speed, and how you can help the team avoid doing it. — One of the main risks that a growing software engineering team faces is a decrease in the team’s productivity. …

“Confronted with a task, and having less information available than is needed to perform that task, an organization may react in either of two ways. …

If the man of action, in Goethe’s phrase, is without conscience, he is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognises one law, the law of that which is to be. So he loves his…

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. (Rich Cook) Computer programming is fun. This is the only truth. Don’t trust who says that it is…