Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore

Post by _y5hn » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 12:48 PM UTC

RodgerTheGreat wrote: post #18

_y5hn wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It worked for the 5% survivors.

If you have a 5% chance of becoming a billionaire and a 95% chance of walking away from a failed startup with minor debts and lost time, the math says that your expected value for moving fast and breaking things is still quite high. Of course, if you step outside yourself and also consider the downsides of failure for your employees, your investors, your customers, and the harm that a fast-and-loose approach could do…

Post by jevgeni » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 12:54 PM UTC

throwGuardian wrote: post #14

Please, someone tell the geniuses at Harvard business that no one ever used "Move Fast, break things" for chips. Having been in the industry long enough, I've seen plenty a launch date moved, and chip-respins executed in favor of risking a recall of hardware from the field. It's only non-critical, consumer/casual software/applications that can afford to move fast, and break things. Your bank, or medical records, or e…

Post by vsareto » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 1:10 PM UTC

stiray wrote: post #6

My answer would be: as the things are so broken, that I sometimes wonder how anything still works. Flawed cpus, memory, motherboards, operating systems, hardware, not to even go into userspace/web software full of lasigna frameworks that are buggy as hell even on then own and once you put all that into gulash called modern software... Its a small miracle on its own.

Post by hrktb » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 1:39 PM UTC

crdoconnor wrote: post #12

kerpele wrote: post #11

I think the big issue with companies like Facebook is not that their development model moves too quickly for them to be able to react to their issues but that they simply don’t care. Facebook has known about the issues with privacy, hyper targeted advertising etc for years. You don’t need to move very fast to react to a fundamental issue in that timeframe.

Areas where big companies don't care are often ripe for new disruptive products. Google's success can largely be attributed to building a feature that the 400 pound gorilla of the time (yahoo) didn't give a fuck about.

Post by ori_b » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 1:48 PM UTC

kerpele wrote: post #11

I think the big issue with companies like Facebook is not that their development model moves too quickly for them to be able to react to their issues but that they simply don’t care. Facebook has known about the issues with privacy, hyper targeted advertising etc for years. You don’t need to move very fast to react to a fundamental issue in that timeframe.