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by converting push methods to pull and reducing batch size. Both have the net effect of reducing WIP.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
134k words published from January-April. If I turn this up slightly, I could hit 500k words published in one year. For context, I did 500k words in the the 3.5 years before this one.
This technique works: you can write all the set_property methods you need, and the instance variable–based retrieval methods to go with them. But there’s a nicer way.
Joe Leo • The Well-Grounded Rubyist
For some years I have been successfully using the following rule of thumb for scheduling a software task: 1/3 planning 1/6 coding 1/4 component test and early system test 1/4 system test, all components in hand.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
Peter Schroeder on Substack: "‘How to do great work’ by Paul Graham mapped out."
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the most productive and successful among them generally made writing a smaller part of their daily routine than the others, so that it was much more feasible to keep going with it day after day. They cultivated the patience to tolerate the fact that they probably wouldn’t be producing very much on any individual day, with the result that they produ
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