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One of the counterintuitive learnings from this experiment was it challenged the generally held belief that, for developers and engineers in particular, you shouldn’t interrupt flow because it hurts individual productivity. However, that’s exactly what the Andon cord does, for the benefit of team flow and productivity.
The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren
We want to structure our systems so that we muck with as little as possible when we update them with new or changed features. In an ideal system, we incorporate new features by extending the system, not by making modifications to existing code.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
How can we have any security or plan anything if everything changes all the time?”