Most engineering teams don’t fail to deliver because they lack talent or ambition. They fail because they try to build new features while pretending there’s only a calm sea and gentle breeze to push the sailboat.
Quality issues, technical debt, and unplanned work are the head winds engineering leaders navigate every day. You can’t eliminate them — but you can learn how to sail into them deliberately.
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