The Elinor Ostrom episodes will be about governing a code base like a commons. The script for the first episode has the attached. Now I need to collect the links.
Wanted: tactics for – and examples of – persuading the people who pay you not to press you to go faster than you know you should. Or, failing that, tactics and examples of resisting the pressure.
Thanks.
Very much looking forward to these upcoming episodes. Just yesterday we had tense discussions at work around these issues.
I read "Kill it With Fire" by Marianne Bellotti last year, and liked it. It's focused mostly on paying off tech debt.
https://nostarch.com/kill-it-fire
I've found no good reading yet on the issues I have now: how to decide when to incur tech debt when prototyping. The danger, of course, is that once the prototype works, there's immense pressure to ship it before paying off that tech debt.
@bwbeach I’m afraid the podcast won’t address the question either. I’m assuming autonomy on the part of the programmers. Or, rather, resistible pressure.
@marick I re-read "Kill it With Fire" today. Still a good book, but does not address your question.