Quotes In Software Craftsmanship

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These are some quotes in the heart of software craftsmanship:

"We need teams of missionaries, not teams of mercenaries"
~ by John Doerr mentioned in 'svpg' ~ Marty Cagan

"I don't want productive teams, I don't want productive engineers, what I want is people who are really really good at understanding the heart of the problem and just solving for that"
~ Dan North

"The goal is to deliver the maximum customer value in the shortest sustainable lead-time while providing the highest possible quality to customers and society as a whole."
~ Lean Agile Mindset

“Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don’t become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines.”
~ Uncle Bob

"Quality is the key to speed. You go fastest when you go well"
~ Uncle Bob

"It is a fuzzy embedded understanding that really matters, it is a social thing. The design decisions that you wish you could get right early as they are hard to change"
~ Martin fowler talking about Software Architecture

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code"
~ John Johnson

"Optimizing for the completion of high-importance work, rather than optimizing for keeping people busy"
~ Agility

"An evolutionary architecture supports guided, incremental change across multiple dimensions"
~ Neal Ford

"The three main challenges we should focus on are: fighting the Agile Industrial Complex and its habit of imposing process upon teams, raising the importance of technical excellence, and organizing our teams around products (rather than projects)"
~ Martin Fowler