requiem 🦫Aug 10, 2024

I think we need to organize behind “move slow and fix things”.

A pattern I’m seeing in my job and my job search is that the tech industry is still under the illusion that “move fast and break things” is right, even though we are surrounded by mountains of evidence to the contrary.

Somehow we need to break the chain.

I don’t think I’m alone in this.

Show threadrequiem 🦫Aug 10, 2024

A cursory web search shows support for this approach among the business crowd.

https://hbr.org/2019/12/why-move-fast-and-break-things-doesnt-work-anymore

Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore

Over the next few decades, agility will not come from speed; it will come from the ability to explore multiple domains at once and combine them into something that produces value. This means computer scientists working with cancer scientists, for example, to identify specific genetic markers that could lead to a cure. This change will be profound and we will need to rethink old notions about how we compete, collaborate, and bring new products to market. Here are three key shifts.

Harvard Business Review
Show threadDemiurgAug 12, 2024
@requiem I also think the article is not good and throws a lot of stuff just in the discussion. I do not feel that quantum computing will affect our development work in the near future a lot.
Also, to deliver something fast to a customer and then iterate over it to make it prefect for the requirement is the absolute best way of delivering good software. What I think though, is that we need way less of "what if when" stuff before and way more time to "make it great". My xp in over 300+ projects.
Show threadDemiurg
@requiem A pattern I very often see, is that a PO in between (on customer side) makes things worse. You need the feedback of the people who need to work with the software and collaborate with them as close as you can. If they like it, it is a success for the PO and the project will be successful.
For a product driven development the same approach is also key. Do early beta tests and value the feedback you get. Still - give everybody the safety and the time and room to shine.
Aug 12, 2024 at 9:42pmWeb