Peak Effort
- Question every requirement; have the name of the person who made it.
- Delete any part or process you can do without. Restore 10% back later if necessary.
- Simplify & optimize the remaining parts/processes.
- Accelerate the cycle time.
- Automate only after doing all the above, and the bugs have been shaken out.
Elon Musk’s Business Development Algorithm (unquestioned by Simpletons)
I learned from a week-long class in quality assurance that the largest inefficiency in software development is in unclear requirements. Dr Gaussman said that it takes 100 times more manpower to find and fix a bug than to prevent it in the first place by rigorously analyzing requirements. Yet from my experience, there were so much pressure to hurry through the requirements phase.