Thank you for sharing. I just read through several of your blog posts and especially resonate with your “evolutionary design”. The idea of integration tests/test harness first over unit tests makes a lot of sense to me too. As a one person team myself, the “art” of creating quality software products, at speed, is revealing itself and is quite fascinating.
It’s not everyday that devs like me get to learn from someone with as much experience as you have. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!
As a solo dev, "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" coupled with ruthless focus and prioritization has resulted in the biggest increases in my productive output.
None of the OP’s tips for increasing product velocity apply to my company. The essence of product velocity reveals itself when N=1.
Focus on a few things.
Don’t rush, do them well. Say no to everything else.
“Hyper growth mode” = hiring as fast as possible. Startups gotta borrow and spend their way to success, and fast, ya know. Can’t keep the VC’s waiting on their returns.