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Ricardo Semler • The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
A well-instrumented two-pizza team had another powerful benefit. They were better at course correcting—detecting and fixing mistakes as they arose.
Colin Bryar • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
The article found a number of practices that had a significant impact on the quality of the final system. One was a strong correlation between quality and the early delivery of a partially functioning system. The article reported that the less functional the initial delivery, the higher the quality in the final delivery. The article also found a st
... See moreRobert C. Martin • Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin Series)
High-performing IT organizations are able to achieve both high throughput, measured in terms of change lead time and deployment frequency, and high stability, measured as the time to restore service after an outage or an event that caused degraded quality of service. High-performing IT organizations also have 50% lower change fail rates than medium
... See moreJoanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
The practices most highly correlated with high IT performance (increasing both throughput and stability) are: Keeping systems configuration, application configuration, and application code in version control Logging and monitoring systems that produce failure alerts Developers breaking up large features into small, incremental changes that are merg
... See moreJoanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual
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In Range, David Epstein reflects on the nature of the outsider: “Switchers are winners,”
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Frameworks over Processes Less Is More The Hot Potato Process A Change in Tools Needs a Change in Behavior Hot Potato Gotchas Resistance to New Workflow Questions for Reflection
Dan Mall • Design That Scales
“At the end of this project, Sereus Dough Inc. has a robust, reliable plan for achieving higher throughput rates and lower maintenance times.”