Duly Noted

Our entire software development lifecycle (Agile, Scrum, Jira, etc.) was built around the constraint: Writing code is slow and expensive. Because implementation was slow, we built processes to “measure twice, cut once.” We groom backlogs and debate requirements because we can’t afford to waste engineering cycles.

_{Quote Citation: KEVIN BENTLEY, “The Shadow Codebase Problem - by Kevin Bentley”, JAN 03, 2026, https://shadowcodebase.substack.com/p/the-shadow-codebase-problem}