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Slavish adherence to fixed, prescriptive standards does not suit a digital era of fast-paced, complex change.
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Technology specialists should have a strong grasp of the business value stream they are in.
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All systems experience entropy over time. Due to entropy, doing nothing is worse than standing still; it’s actually going backward.
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Attention to technical excellence must be continuous, not occasional.
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A more componentized technical architecture, with high cohesion and low coupling, results in greater agility, as it is complexity that fits in your head…
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A focus only on tooling will have minimal improvement on outcomes if processes, the system of work, and behavioral norms, how people are organized and incentivized, are not changing.
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Tools can only hope to support the skills, culture, and flow, and at best encourage them.
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Most of the practices that embody technical excellence and good design require tuning to context.
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Regardless of what is being measured, measure the work not the worker and focus on the trend over time rather than the absolute, as contexts vary.
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…existing enterprise architecture design, and especially heavily layered architectures and their organizational structures, can be a significant impediment to flow.
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