The Seven Deadly Sins of “Go Faster"

Things that will make your dev team take _longer_to deliver _worse_software:

1. Adding more people to the team
2. Making them work longer hours
3. Cutting down on work that “slows them down”, like writing automated tests
4. Maximising team utilisation and scheduling more work to be done in parallel
5. Micromanaging the details
6. Minimising real-time, synchronous communication so they’re not “interrupted”
7. Keeping them inline. No questioning the plan, and failure is _not_an option!

Things that will help your dev team take _less_time to deliver _better_software:

1. Keep the team small
2. Keep the team rested
3. Test more often (you’ll be needing those fast tests)
4. Solve one problem at a time, as a team
5. Trust the team to make decisions when they need to be made
6. Maximise synchronous communication to minimise waiting
7. Keep them curious, questioning and unafraid to try

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