Software teams should be more like Ninjas, and less like Samurai

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It is the greatest Samurai who lets his sword rust in it’s scabbard

Barney Stinson, How I met your Mother

Not exactly a reliable historian — but the sentiment is a nice one. Unfortunately, in the fast paced world of software engineering, our Samurai is likely to be killed in their sleep.