Increase Quality Today to Increase Velocity Tomorrow
I always tell teams the way to increase velocity tomorrow is to increase code quality today. Focusing on code quality keeps the software we write clear and easy to understand.
Our brains have been conditioned to understand information when it contains these qualities, so code that exhibits these qualities is easier to understand and work with. Quality software helps us extend our software without creating a mess and this allows our projects to scale.
Quality software is also much easier to debug. This helps us deliver faster and makes the code easier to maintain, reducing the total cost of ownership and paying for itself very quickly.
Ward Cunningham[44] coined the term technical debt to ...
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