My favorite excerpts from the Unicorn Project

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My favorite excerpts from The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

Maxine loves coding and she’s awesome at it. But she knows that there’s something even more important than code: the systems that enable developers to be productive, so that they can write high-quality code quickly and safely, freeing themselves from all the things that prevent them from solving important business problems.

Ward Cunningham : ‘Technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.’

Edward Deming: ‘A bad system will beat a good person every time.’

The Five Ideals

    • The First Ideal—Locality and Simplicity
    • The Second Ideal—Focus, Flow, and Joy
    • The Third Ideal—Improvement of Daily Work
    • The Fourth Ideal—Psychological Safety
    • The Fifth Ideal—Customer Focus

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