Creating Happy Engineers - Anecdotes from the Trenches
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A product owner adds a metric showing extra hours of sleep users regain to turn feature counts into purpose, prompting engineers to improve UX; a rewards committee invents a reserved parking slot costing 0 INR so the winner gains real autonomy without spending money; a team adopts Stryker for JavaScript (and PIT for Java) to run mutation testing and gamify “killing mutants,” which reduces Saturday production fixes even though the codebase reported 90% coverage.
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