Mary Poppendieck’s “The Tyranny of ‘The Plan'”
A long, close reading of Poppendieck's talk on how plans quietly become the thing we serve instead of the thing we're building. Cost of delay, queues, and the economics underneath the manifesto.
The Customer is the Marshmallow
The marshmallow challenge is the whole argument for shipping early and often, in eighteen minutes of spaghetti and tape. Prototype, test, and stop mistaking the plan for the product.