[tboyd47]

> "1. Fixations... 2. Requirements"

Brilliant!

But I would have condensed the last 3 into one point: "Productivity."

Productivity - accomplishing more with less work - should be the #1 internal goal of every software team. Productivity means you have more hours of the day and more of your effort freed up. This means more time for testing; more time for enhancing your tooling; more time for spikes; more time for upgrades; more time to develop features. Even if no one does anything productive with the freed-up time, it still improves morale and emergency responsiveness.

You can of course go too far with it and ruin your fingerspitzengefühl by automating too much of your work.

Most teams have testers who are built-in advocates for requirements accuracy. But productivity has no built-in advocate. Developers themselves are the first to sabotage their own productivity in pursuit of - let's all just face it - fixations.