What Nicole Forsgren thinks about software quality

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Researcher of software delivery performance, co-author of "Accelerate" and of the DORA, SPACE and DevEx frameworks, and author of "Frictionless".

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1. 22 Mar 2026

   Our readingTeams that trade quality for speed well never describe it that way — they make an explicit, bounded, risk-based decision.

   Their wordsSome teams can, and but when they do it, they're doing it very, very intentionally. They don't say they're sacrificing quality. They say they're making a risk-based decision.

   ↗Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 12th of 18 in this recording