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

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

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

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

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

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

I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.