Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems

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Don Reinertsen has been making this point and uses economical arguments to back it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6v6W7jkwok&list=FL6P7ZzM6GT... I love this presentation because it adds strong economic arguments to a lot of practices that are quite common in software engineering but typically lack good argumentation as to why they are good. He covers a lot more ground in this presentation. Well worth your time if you are involved in any way in planning software development. I love his notions of option value…

From the comments, I think readers are generally failing to take an opportunistic attitude toward this article. Dig out useful ideas and ignore what doesn't help. Yes, there are situations where working too quickly will bite you, so you can't always do it. But the key idea here is that by working quickly you reduce your expectations of how costly a new effort is. Then you'll actually start it. Inertia is a powerful adversary. Any weapon you can put on…

Author in 2015: > If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you're sitting around your apartment on a Sunday afternoon thinking of stuff to do, you're probably not going to think of starting a blog post, because it'll feel too expensive. Author in 2025: > This is why it’s so useful to work on an article for a long time. If you’re reporting on something for six months, even if the really concentrated…