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

I've learned to always avoid saying "always"

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

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

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

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

In almost all cases, I’m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to do. Refactoring is something you do all the time in little bursts.