Nicola

“and transition our focus from building the right thing to building the thing right.”
― Jez Humble, Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean

“The patterns of success and failure we see among firms faced with sustaining and disruptive technology change are a natural or systematic result of good managerial decisions. That is, in fact, why disruptive technologies confront innovators with such a dilemma. Working harder, being smarter, investing more aggressively, and listening more astutely to customers are all solutions to the problems posed by new sustaining technologies. But these paradigms of sound management are useless—even counterproductive, in many instances—when dealing with disruptive technology.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

“not “can we build it?” but “should we build it?”
― Jez Humble, Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean

“This shows that even a slight spatial or casual dependency between data entries or operations could kill scalability, so separation of data into independent shards and careful data modeling is extremely important for scalability.”
― Anonymous