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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

RIF Notes #65

RIF Notes #64

"A management obsessed with productivity usually has little patience for the quiet time essential to profound creativity." —Gordon MacKenzie

RIF Notes #63

"My code can’t be tidier than my thinking. The purpose of my tidying is to clarify my thinking by manipulating the code. The code ends up better, but because I understand more not because I somehow forced it to be better in spite of my confusion." -Kent Beck

RIF Notes #62

“teams at Amazon are long lived service teams. Amazon does NOT do “projects”. Funding is continuous. This ensures attention to operational quality, reduces tech debt, avoids lock-in to legacy technologies” – Adrian Cockcroft

RIF Notes #60

“With the possible exception of the four #Accelerate metrics, a metrics driven approach to evaluation is rarely effective. As Deming says: It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth." - Allen Holub

RIF Notes #63

"Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." -Eagleson's Law

RIF Notes #62

"My code can’t be tidier than my thinking. The purpose of my tidying is to clarify my thinking by manipulating the code. The code ends up better, but because I understand more not because I somehow forced it to be better in spite of my confusion." -Kent Beck

RIF Notes #61

“teams at Amazon are long lived service teams. Amazon does NOT do “projects”. Funding is continuous. This ensures attention to operational quality, reduces tech debt, avoids lock-in to legacy technologies” – Adrian Cockcroft