Reddit mentions of The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

Something awesome and hardcore like Principles of Lean Product Development ? :) http://www.amazon.com/The-Principles-Product-Development-Flow/dp/1935401009

I agree that doing things one step at a time is important.

There's a brilliant book on managing new product development called Principles of Product Development Flow, and one of the principles (and the one with the most memorable name) is called the Batch Size Death Spiral Principle. The idea is that if people think they will have to wait ages to get their feature out, they'll try and tack it on to something else going out. This causes further delay to the original release, so more people try to squeeze changes in. Everything, the batch of changes is so large that everything is paralysed.

To me, this is one reason to replace Core with Classic. Core have shown themselves to sabotage any change against their own interests, and the expectation is that even if Core propose a 2MB increase, they'll likely block any other hardforks in future. With Classic we can reasonable expect that we'll be able to have sensible discussions about future changes, and the risk of doing several major changes one after another is much lower than trying to do them at the same time.