Ron Jeffries on the pace and stress of software development...
If you're feeling under the gun, it might be time to slow down.Amazingly counter-intuitive advice is found throughout Extreme Programming practices. I have *never* seen continued pressure and stress succeed in software development. On the other hand more than once I have seen big improvements when teams are able to step back, breath, make a couple of observations, and move forward gradually. Before long the team is working better than ever.
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Two of my favorite sayings, attributed respectively to the Amish and the Chinese, are as follows:
The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get.
When you are most in a hurry, slow down.
I once called a buddy and asked him if he wanted to go out for lunch. He said that he had a bug and had to work through lunch.
The next day I called him and he said he still had the bug and couldn't go out to lunch. I asked him if he'd fixed the bug by working through lunch the previous day. After a long silence I asked him when I should pick him up for lunch.
He fixed the bug half an hour after he got back from lunch.
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