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“telemetry is what enables us to assemble our best understanding of reality and detect when our understanding of reality is incorrect.” quote by Gene Kim — Download Open image

““telemetry is what enables us to assemble our best understanding of reality and detect when our understanding of reality is incorrect.””

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“for those organizations that provided a stock ticker symbol, we found that high performers had 50% higher market capitalization growth over three years. They…

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“A critical part of the Second Way is making wait times visible, so you know when your work spends days sitting in someone’s queue—or…

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“when something does go wrong, we conduct blameless post-mortems, not to punish anyone, but to better understand what caused the accident and how to…

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“Bill Baker, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, quipped that we used to treat servers like pets: “You name them and when they get sick,…

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“To even get feedback from our integration process would require twenty-four to thirty-six hours.”

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“work can bounce between teams endlessly due to incomplete information, or work can be passed onto downstream work centers with problems that remain completely…

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“practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of…

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“habits are what enable mastery.”

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“20% on detailed planning (Their poor throughput and high lead times were misattributed to faulty estimation, and so, hoping to get a better answer,…

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“Features are always a gamble. If you’re lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits.”

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“I listen to Wes and Patty brainstorm ideas to reduce yet another dependency on Brent when something starts to bother me. Erik called WIP,…

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The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.

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