Move Slow and Mend Things by Kevlin Henney

Velocity. Sprints. Move fast and break things. There is a seeming obsession with speed of software development that is often at the expense of the software and its development. Velocity is a question of direction, not just magnitude. Sprints are not about sprinting; they're about sustainable pace. Time to market is less important than time in market. Full-stack development is normally a statement about technology, but it also applies to individuals and interactions. The full stack touches both the code and the world outside the code, and with that view comes responsibility and pause for thought. Doing the wrong thing smarter is not smart. The point of a team is its group intelligence not its numbers. Is scaling up the challenge, or is scaling down the real challenge? Is architecture a fixed technical plan or an unfolding hypothesis? Is code quality just something for the developers, or is it also something for the customer? Are tests extra to or a part of development? Let's slow down and learn things. Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His software development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites and has contributed to both open- and closed-source software. He is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.