Quotes About Iteration

of work. Over that period, we were making constant improvements to the

Validated learning

As is typically the case in large-batch development, both groups had been willing to sacrifice the team's ability to learn in order to work more "efficiently.

Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn't matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build—the thing customers want and will pay for—as quickly as possible.

Instead of making complex plans that are based on a lot of assumptions, you can make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop.

make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback

BUILD-MEASURE-LEARN FEEDBACK LOOP

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

In the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

it's done by creating 25 times as many dirty tests

Quicksort a few times, but what are the odds that your custom version will be fully correct on the first try?

If you do so, you will run right into the iteration problem, because "happy" is a right-now thing. If you place people in situations where they are feeling a lot of positive emotion, they get present-focused and impulsive.

Plan to throw away all sound, art, and code created for a prototype. That way your artists, audio people, and programmers can work quickly without worrying about having to debug their content later. Trying to build production-quality assets during preproduction just slows the process down. Once

Design Rule The Story Comes Later Do not spend a lot of time devising a story at the concept stage. This is a cardinal error frequently made by people who are more used to presentational media such as books and film. You must concentrate most of your efforts on the gameplay at this point. Types

After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.

Repetition makes perfect.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

For me, repetition is death.

Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one.