When your domain model fails to capture the actual system behavior, a lot of the extra complexity gets transported in the BI field, trying to reconstruct the meaning from information to be decoded in the data layer.

If the first time your engineers see a product idea is at sprint planning, you are clearly a feature team, and your engineers are not empowered in any meaningful sense - Marty Cagan svpg.com/the-most-impor…

“Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.” George Bernard Shaw

Collaboration amplifies our collective strengths. #SoftwareDevelopment #WorkTogether

Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis - Andy Grove

Most of complexity in software is accidental

The game is not better predicting the future, but better adapting to how the present is different from your expectations.

Physical structure is crucial in a system, but is rarely a leverage point, because changing it is rarely quick or simple. The leverage point is in proper design in the first place. - Donella Meadows #SystemsThinking #SystemDesign

Clarity first, conciseness after; conciseness without clarity makes code terse and unreadable.

A clear understanding of the problem is the foundation for effective solutions. If you can't describe the problem in one succinct line, you're likely trying to solve more than one problem. #SoftwareDevelopment #KnowTheProblemYouAreSolving

An experiment either confirms your assertions or clarifies your understanding—either way you come out winning.

In software, planning and building are not separate activities. They happen concurrently. Any metaphor that assumes that planning and building _are_ separable is flawed, IMO.

Release frequency is an indicator of your team's ability to adapt, learn, and deliver value. #ReleaseRidiculouslyOften

Transformation doesn't have a SKU (you can't procure it) - Gregor

The bigger the initiatives are, the longer they seem to be able to defer any measurable value delivery - Gregor

"It's in the doing of the work that we discover the work we must do." Woody Zuill

The more you commit to up front, the more misinformed your solution. #KnowTheProblemYouAreSolving #CreateSimpleThingsInSmallSteps #ValidateBeforeDuringAndAfter

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. - W. Edwards Deming #metrics

"Failure is not the opposite of success, it is part of success" ~ Jim Kwik

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” ~Sir Winston Churchill