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Suffering is the source of progress #163

Closed donbonifacio closed 5 years ago

donbonifacio commented 5 years ago

Sometimes people accomodate to suffering and are okay with that, we see this all the time. Bugs, long build times, lost of meetings, project no one wants to work at This was what happened to me: unit tests, functional programming, zero bug policy

My focus is on processes that remove the suffering But what if when I reach maturity on my processes most of the suffering disappears? Would we need progress? What does progress mean for a mature, healthy and productive team? Will we just get other issues that will make us suffer? How will we mantain discipline and motivation to keep the high level