---
title: "Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/methodology-is-bullshit-principles-for-product-velocity-vkic6x2au
source_url: https://ssoready.com/blog/from-the-founders/methodology-is-bullshit/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-11-08T09:56:32.036Z
updated: 2024-12-08T20:58:23.159Z
tags: ["productivity", "leadership", "agile", "product-management"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 20
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 20 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

Achieving fast product development often involves cutting unnecessary processes, limiting project scope, and focusing on what truly matters. Key principles include doing less to maintain quality, embracing simple solutions, ignoring non-essential problems, avoiding rigid development processes, accepting the need for occasional rewrites, utilizing vendors for certain tasks, and maintaining a small, efficient team. Understanding customer needs and having a strong team are crucial for maintaining product velocity.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@benjaminryanrogers** · 5 upvotes

> This guy's idea of the perfect workday:
> ![image](https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--e8Pn7mJV--/f_auto/v1734251393/ugc/content_e306bfb2-c5cf-4459-8ce9-86eadcf1d13b)

**@idoshamun** · 5 upvotes

> Methodology is bullshit so we'll just invent another one without calling it this way

**@gugabit** · 0 upvotes

> The methodology of having no methodology...

**@gerhardjustolsen** · 0 upvotes

> We have reached much of the same concussions.

**@theacademe** · 0 upvotes

> So YAGNI? KISS? And Brooks' Law?

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Tags: [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership), [#agile](https://daily.dev/tags/agile), [#product-management](https://daily.dev/tags/product-management)

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