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The truth of productive development is this - it's not about working "harder" or "faster", it's about knowing how to move toil from your workflow and being able to assess what is an easy change from a spiraling complex one.

Productivity comes from a place of absolute simplicity.

This is why I so often tweet about design, and over-design, and about picking architectures appropriate to the size of your problem space, and about reducing cognitive load.

The most beautiful software solves complicated problems in simple expressive ways, not the inverse.

You need a calm, contemplative mental space to get good at this, you need to be thoughtful, you need to be kind - to yourself and others.

Software hacked together quickly, in a rush, while stressed, or even angry, mostly turns out to be garbage.

This is thoughtful work.

David Whitney

That's not to say there isn't such a thing as a good *pace*, but pace and sprinting aren't the same thing.

Simplicity leads pace, by default - because simplicity makes moving fast *easy*.

I kind of rue the day scrum normalised the term "sprint" for the connotations it carries.

@david_whitney I always felt like the word "Sprint" sounds like the opposite of what it describes: A steady run of work, repeated week after week. Seems like "Lap" (as in a lap of a marathon) would be a much better term. I'm curious about the history of the term "Sprint". #agile #sprint

@vincentrolfs @david_whitney I had never thought of using "Lap" before. In the past I have encouraged the use of "Iteration", to avoid the connotations of running so fast that we run out of breath, but it felt a little abstract.

@vincentrolfs @david_whitney I agree, it's a bit of a misnomer. I guess it also harkens back to the rugby analogy of the term "scrum" itself. Perhaps they used to the term to make it clear that these were meant to be short, focused periods of time.

@renewiersma @vincentrolfs @david_whitney And the new Sprint starts when the former one ends. Immediately.