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Two of Lean’s central tenets include the deeply held belief that the manufacturing lead time required to convert raw materials into finished goods is the best predictor of quality, customer satisfaction, and employee happiness, and that one of the best predictors of short lead times is small batch sizes of work. Lean principles focus on how to create value for the customer through systems thinking by creating constancy of purpose, embracing scientific thinking, creating flow and pull (versus push), assuring quality at the source, leading with humility, and respecting every individual.

The DevOps Handbook

Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren

Force unwrapping a value in a unit test is not as problematic as doing so in production code because a crash in a test is only visible for the developer.

Test-Driven iOS Development With Swift

Dr. Dominik Hauser

Inspired in part by the uncanny ability of viruses to splice new genetic information into the DNA of bacterial cells, the pioneers of this early gene therapy realized they could use viruses to deliver therapeutic genes to humans.

A Crack in Creation

Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg

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