6 Quotes by David Farley

In software, when something is painful, the way to reduce the pain is to do it more frequently, not less.

There should be two tasks for a human being to perform to deploy software into a development, test, or production environment: to pick the version and environment and to press the “deploy” button.

The earlier you catch defects, the cheaper they are to fix.

Releasing software is too often an art; it should be an engineering discipline.

Indeed, there is a school of thought that any work on a branch is, in the lean sense, waste – inventory that is not being pulled into the finished product.

Asking experts to do boring and repetitive, and yet technically demanding tasks is the most certain way of ensuring human error that we can think of, short of sleep deprivation, or inebriation.