I believe in:

• Product simplicity: simple and minimal apps win every thing
• Shipping the right stuff: know what you’re shipping, for whom and why
• That a MVP isn’t minimal for your users: ship the minimal useful viable product
• Continuous delivery over timed releases: get faster incrementally
• Small products over monolithic apps: bigger doesn’t always mean better
• Test automation over manual QA: let the computers do their thing
• Production like testing over fake test data: Test like it’s the real thing
• Exploratory testing supplements automation: let the testers outside the box
• Small passionate multidisciplinary teams over hiring exactly for that role
• Good people over experience: working with the right people is better than working with experience
• A complete effort in production over half-assed hack: Hacks are prototypes to provide ideas
• Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: a team needs to get it right before they can go fast
• Experience in teams over experience in code: it’s better to hire for fit than tenure
• Only working on master over feature branches: feature branches are more pain than they are worth
• Languages that your developers work on their spare time over enterprise languages: because Java should die already
• Open discussion over tracking tools: collaborating through discussions and meetings is more valuable than a tracking tool
• Diversity over recruiting by pattern matching: highly diverse teams work better than the status-quo teams

I don’t believe in

• Manual QA: if you are just getting a QA to rubber stamp someone else’s work, what’s the point?
• Waterfall: Big bang is all risk, no reward