Quotes About Iteration

Así que formúlate la pregunta: «¿Qué podemos lograr en dos semanas?» Y hazlo. Preséntalo y deja que la gente lo use, lo pruebe, juegue con ello o lo que sea. Cuanto antes llegue a manos de tus clientes, mejor te irá a ti.

I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.

Like evolution, it reuses all the old, successful parts of everything that has come before. Like evolution, it just means unfolding.

A good answer must be reinvented many times, from scratch.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?" EDWARD BERESFORD TODD

O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

It's probably the thousandth time

agile teams need short backlogs of small items, a number of which are quite well-articulated and socialized, but only just prior to the iteration boundary in which they will be implemented.

Build what you need as you need it, aggressively refactoring as you go along; don't spend a lot of time planning for grandiose, unknown future scenarios. Good software can evolve into what it will ultimately become.

The way you approach a big software cake is to break it down into lots of little cupcakes.

Slice out a release strategy. Remember: there's always too much to build.

Handing off all the details about the story to someone else to build doesn't work. Don't do that.

we need to acknowledge that building software isn't the same as working on an assembly line. You're not just building one more widget like the one you built a few minutes ago. Each new story we create software to support is something new.

to get something built; rather, it is to learn if we're building

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

As an entrepreneur you keep trying things, and I try everything. I try business ideas, on our website we test everything, iterate, iterate, iterate.

You can't just go careening toward your idea without checking in with customers and people who might use it and making sure you're on to something.

Wrestling is quite cyclical in its nature.

It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit - the match between what you're building and who will buy it.

The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

The goal is to convert assumptions to knowledge as quickly and cheaply as possible.

Of course there was no such thing as a true repetition of anything; ever since the pre-Socratics that had been clear, Heraclitus and his un-twice-steppable river and so on. So habits were not truly iterative, but pseudoiterative. The pattern of the day might be the same, in other words, but the individual events fulfilling the pattern were always a little bit different. Thus there was both pattern and surprise