Comment by dxs

Several more items along these lines. Two books and one recent blog post...

> "Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects", by Jared Richardson, Will Gwaltney, Jr

> "The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, your journey to mastery", by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt

> "The Libertarian Coder", by Adam Ard, at https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/the-libertarian-co...

Me myself, I joined a project that shipped on time. The lead developer, a contractor, begged for just three more months to make it all actually work properly.

Nope.

We shipped, and then it took two more years to finally get it functional.

And the contractor was banned from ever working there again (a WA state agency).

Yippee!