One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

When you actually sit down to write some code, you learn things that you didn't get from thinking about them in modeling terms...there is a feedback process there that you can only really get at from executing some things and seeing what works

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.