If you make one change in one place, it changes what other people perceive of it. We just got to find ways of working there. And some of our guesses will be wrong. That's fine. There's nobody that knows the right answer. The common refrain of softra development team saying, oh, we would have done ae good job if onlytat the requirements had been correct is never going to be correct. They're just an illusion. Nobody knows the answer. Even if you go eve, even if you had the user sitting in your room, that's only their guess. You weren't going to get an eyepud or an iphone by asking users what
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Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, is back to talk about his latest book, Modern Software Engineering, a Top 3 Software Engineering best seller on Amazon UK this September. Shipping good software starts with you giving yourself permission to do a good job. It continues with a healthy curiosity, admitting that you don’t know, and running many experiments, safely, without blowing everything up. And then there is scope creep…
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