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Tom DeMarco Quotes: Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.
         

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.


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The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.



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Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.



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