This is amazing. This is the most comprehensive write-up on software product development I've ever read. By anyone. And it's the <i>only</i> post on product development I've ever read in my entire life that has specific examples that aren't fiction.<p>Six week cycles? Ha. How nice it would be to work at a company that has a product, customers, and isn’t fucking insane. Remember, friends don’t let friends work for VC funded startups.<p>> We don’t count hours or question how individual days are spent. We don’t have daily meetings. We don’t rethink our roadmap every two weeks.<p>I think I've wasted the last 10 years of my life. Let's see 20 minute standup meeting every work day for the last 9 years. That's 20 * 5 * 48 * 9 / 60 = 720 hours of my life wasted in standup meetings.