What Are The Checks And Balances On The Speed Of Software Development?

You need more than developers to create software

Ben "The Hosk" Hosking
5 min readAug 15, 2023
Photo by Ales Maze on Unsplash

Software and cathedrals are much the same; first we build them, then we pray. by Anonymous.

The speed of software development isn’t just the amount of the developers' writing code.

There are many checks and balances on that slows down the speed of development. Growing the size of development teams and increasing development is like growing the population species.

Oversimplification hides the complex reality of software development. IT causes unexpected plan busting surprises when a software development tries to go faster.

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner. by Jim Highsmith

Darwin and population control

When Darwin finished voyaging around on dog named ships (Beagle)on p, he started going through his notebooks to write a book of his findings.

Darwin asked himself some questions

Why do we have different species?

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Ben "The Hosk" Hosking
Ben "The Hosk" Hosking

Written by Ben "The Hosk" Hosking

Technology philosopher | Software dev → Solution architect | Avid reader | Life long learner

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