Sublime

When I’m looking at a system that was built years ago with no documentation and poorly named variables, I sometimes feel how an archaeologist must feel pondering the mysteries of a lost and ancient civilization from a shard of pottery. It’s just so little to go on.

Self-managed teams are not just tiny curiosities. They can manage vast international operations of great technical complexity. The practices are not only scalable, unlike bureaucracy, they are scalable without sclerosis.

Throw less at the problem

Based on experiments at Microsoft, 1/3 of ideas created a statistically significant positive change, 1/3 produced no statistically significant difference, and 1/3 created a statistically significant negative change.12 All of the ideas tested were thought to be good ones — but neither intuition nor expert opinion are good gauges of the value our ide

When the team has decided on modules first, and when deployment options start out as simple as possible, that approach puts them on solid ground to make decisions based on empirical information at the most responsible time.

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crawl, walk, run approach gives us the chance to run tests and experiment on our applications early and obtain feedback from real human beings in addition to all the automation

As the software stack for any development effort has exploded over the last 10-plus years,7 organizations with strict tool standards have been at a distinct disadvantage, as their process for adding new tools has been too slow to take advantage of rapid advances.