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Friday, February 20, 2009

Great Post: Working In Small Batches

Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches.

Of all of the insights I've contributed to the companies I've worked at over the years, the one I am most proud of is the importance of working in small batches. It's had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment, just-in-time scalability, and even search engine marketing, to name a few. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System.
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