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If my clients would listen to just one piece of advice:
* teams are the most valuable performance unit.
* small teams adapt faster than large teams.
(that's 2 pieces of advice)
AI trends indicate that, as cognitive grunt work vanishes, small teams are able to make rapid decisions and keep bureaucracy to a minimum.
Small teams (3 to 5 max) are more nimble and learn (together) faster.
Executives tend to think “more people = more productivity”.
But the bottleneck in knowledge work is always the pace of decision-making (i.e., bureaucracy).
More people equals more bureaucracy equals slower teams.
This article illustrates a classic problem with the common use of #velocity as a metric.
https://betterteams.fm/articles/2019/06/Velocity-Escape-this-Pitfall/
TDD + AI
Without great automated acceptance tests, AI-generated code could too easily be black-box hallucinations.
Automated tests are an art. Tests are now the most valuable code in the repo.
TDD + AI
There is debate, and time will tell as techniques evolve, about the optimal size of the behaviour/unit described in tests; evidence is mounting that coding agents excel at writing and managing unit-level tests, while humans focus on describing acceptance-level tests.
