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It’s possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That’s what happens when you drive out slack. It’s also possible to make an organization a little less efficient and improve it enormously. In order to do that,
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“We found that approval only for high-risk changes was not correlated with software delivery performance. Teams that reported no approval process or used peer review achieved higher software delivery performance. Finally, teams that required approval by an external body achieved lower performance.”
― Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
― Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
“In short, approval by an external body (such as a manager or CAB) simply doesn’t work to increase the stability of production systems, measured by the time to restore service and change fail rate. However, it certainly slows things down. It is, in fact, worse than having no change approval process at all.”
― Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
― Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
“understood that part of the reason large teams are crippled in their ability to innovate and move fast is that because it’s hard work to manage them, companies build infrastructure to make sure people are doing the right things. But the teams I saw that accomplished great stuff just knew what they most needed to accomplish; they didn’t need elaborate procedures, and certainly not incentives.”
― Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
― Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
“Knowledge is power, and you should give power to those who have the knowledge.”
― Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
― Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
“There’s a dangerous fallacy that data constitutes the facts you need to know to run your business.”
― Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
― Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
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