“If you do development for a while you learn what’s important and what’s not. Sounds trivial. But when 60% of what gets delivered is never used this kind of knowledge is extremely important.”

In our industry there is a ten to one difference in developer productivity.

Top developers = ROI

Offshoring = pain

Don’t fall into that trap.

When asked if it was better technique to mash a big gear or spin a small gear, Eddy Merckx thought for a moment and said “It’s better to spin a big gear.”

“It never gets easier you just go faster.”

- Greg Lemond

Brooks’s Law:

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.