Can Dictators Enhance Agility?
summary
Case study of a stalled product shows concrete fixes: enforce CI quality gates that block merges until shift-left testing and API/critical-journey suites pass in pre-merge pipelines, run tests in ephemeral envs, add mutation testing to measure unit-test effectiveness, and run only impacted test subsets by computing a blast radius to keep execution time low. Change OKRs to things like zero critical bugs and near-zero time to locate offending commits, pilot the changes, automate enforcement, and observe fewer regressions and faster, more reliable releases.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 2:02Can dictators enhance Agility?
- 3:52Rising Action, Introspection
- 9:20Quality Gates Skipped
- 10:37LI 01: Quality Gates Reinforced
- 14:29Bug Fix Cycle
- 21:11LI Execution Framework: DPSR
- 23:21Key Takeaways
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