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“If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.”
– Mario Andretti

Add controls, one after another, in a long chain, so that everything comes out without errors, and all you will achieve is making things slower.

Agile is flexibility plus speed. You can be fast and flexible and still keep control; the trick is not to overdo the controls, to work incrementally and to accept a degree of uncertainty. Accept that you can’t control everything, accept the possibility of failure.

Deliver gradually. You can move forward step by step: continuous improvement.

Invest your time in reducing latency. Gradual change, a fixed percentage per year, in the way you do things will bring you great benefits.

Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. If you invest 30% a year in improving, you will get spectacular results in just a few years.

As they did in Formula 1, shown in this video; this is the result of compound interest applied to continuous improvement and of permanent investment in reducing latency: