"Regular deliverables will discourage people from leaving everything until the end. Set clear expectations about what you expect to happen when."—The Staff Engineer's Path
"Rely only on reliable things. Don't depend on assumptions. If you can't tell if something is reliable, assume the worst."By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
"Remember, attention is a scarce resource! If you waste folks’ time with a nudge email or ping, they won’t pay attention to the next one."Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
"Requirements are not architecture. Requirements are not design, nor are they the user interface. Requirements are need."By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
"Schedule disaster, functional misfits, and system bugs all arise because the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing."By Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition