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Zacharias Enochsson

Rather than blindly following a plan you made up long ago – take an exploratory approach, acknowledging and adapting to the impediments on your way. Always mindful of the one true metric that matters: happy customers/users.

Rather than treating humans like robots, embrace their human nature. Empower them to access their innate desire to do great things – perhaps even outside what they were hired for. Happy developers (including everyone who contributes – not just programmers) are the most effective in the long term.

Working in small (4-5 people), focused units with a variety of skills usually works out very well.