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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. Its not about literally being the best product engineering org in the world.

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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

LaunchDarkly

Corey Bertram, VP of Infrastructure & SRE at Datadog spoke about how his organization does chaos engineering. He shared his experiences from when he led the SRE team at Netflix, and how thats influenced the way he’s helped the Datadog team put process around chaos engineering experiments. Go after the easy wins.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. However, the open source world figured out a better way to develop software.