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In most cases, increasing feedback, not decreasing it, is the single most effective way to deal with troubled software development projects and environments.
Lean Software Development
Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
Wherever war is given sanctity in the name of God, Mars is there. Wherever military might is wedded with religious rhetoric, Mars is there. Wherever the symbols of faith morph into the emblems of war, Mars is there. Mars is not dead. Mars lives on. Mars is alive and well in our day. I’ve even been to a modern temple of Mars.
A Farewell to Mars
Brian Zahnd
“Every time we have an outage, we’ll be conducting a blameless post-mortem like this one. The spirit and intent of these sessions are to learn from them, chronicling what happened before memories fade. Prevention requires honesty, and honesty requires the absence of fear. Just like Norm Kerth says in the Agile Prime Directive, ‘Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.’
The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim
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