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"Anyone Can Ship Garbage"
The Journyx project management blog offers the following advice when managing software development projects: Don’t reward for shipping on schedule. Anyone can ship garbage.
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The Journyx project management blog offers the following advice when managing software development projects:
Don’t reward for shipping on schedule. Anyone can ship garbage. Base rewards on quality metrics.
We all know the popular image of tireless programmers working 80 hours a week to ship a product, reaching their goal through superhuman effort, and then popping champagne corks in a flurry of self-congratulation. Does anyone ever ask how good were the results actually produced by that whirlwind effort?
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