Iterate or die

1 · Erik Bernhardsson · March 2, 2016, 5 a.m.
Here’s a conclusion I’ve made building consumer products for many years: the speed at which a company innovates is limited by its iteration speed. I don’t even mean throughput here. I just mean the cycle time. Invoking Little’s law this is also related to the total inventory of features not being deployed yet. In a hypothetical scenario, clone two teams of identical engineers and split them up in two groups A and B. Actually, clone B another nine times so that they are 10x larger. Give them the ...