{"id":58,"date":"2009-03-19T22:58:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T22:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andypalmer.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2009-05-22T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T13:05:39","slug":"do-you-have-enough-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/2009\/03\/do-you-have-enough-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have enough oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking to someone who had had a project manager mention in a retrospective that he felt that the testing was slowing down the delivery. They wanted to stop “wasting time” on testing and refactoring.
\nWhen I heard this, I said “That’s a bit like going on a car journey and your passenger telling you to ignore the oil pressure light because they don’t want you wasting time topping up the engine oil”<\/p>\n

Admittedly, you will get underway faster, but that’s going to be very little comfort when you come to a grinding halt a few miles down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was talking to someone who had had a project manager mention in a retrospective that he felt that the testing was slowing down the delivery. They wanted to stop “wasting time” on testing and refactoring. When I heard this, I said “That’s a bit like going on a car journey and your passenger telling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,7,17,15,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}