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The most important realisation we had going into this renewed effort was that a successful migration has to be centered around people, not just tech.

Key insight. It’s always people first, code is a far distant second. Love Kent Beck’s series on this, so insightful https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/software-design-is-human-r...

Great read, Heap team! Thanks for sharing :-D

I routinely bore people with the Abelson quote that programs are written for humans to read and only incidentally for computers to execute.

It’s always people first, code is a far distant second.

I'm afraid that's kinda political. In order to get the migration successful, hmm.. I assume developers did not have much of a choice, either accept it or leave. You can try to brainwash them by impose your subjective point of view in a friendly way, but in the end it's all about power, that's the untold story.

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