Chapter 9. Stop the Line

Being agile requires that teams stop the line to solve critical problems at their core so that they do not lose time by dealing with the same problem again and again.

By Leslie Ekas

Early in the days when web programming was new, one of the earlier companies I was involved with came out with products that leveraged a web server architecture. As the web development technologies advanced, we did our best to keep pace and leverage cutting edge technology to give our customers the advantages the new technologies offered. We had a strong heritage of ensuring that our software protected customer’s critical intellectual property, so it came as an unhappy surprise when a customer found several ways to breach our security. The ...

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