Focus. Deliver. Learn. Repeat
summary
Argues four practical habits drive repeatable team performance: focus, deliver, learn, repeat. Details concrete practices used at Pivotal: strict ordered backlog, WIP limits, pairing, TDD, continuous integration, product manager acceptance testing, weekly one-hour retros and five-minute standups. Gives examples: a bug found on day one prevents an entire class of defects; a walking skeleton microservice reaches production quickly; another feature finished in six weeks but waits two months to deploy. Recommends the snowball strategy for paying down tech debt.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:00Context
- 13:00What good looks like
- 16:00More choices more strategy
- 19:40XP
- 24:00Test Driven Development
- 30:20Distractions
- 37:52Deliver
- 45:38Repeat
- 48:47Outtakes
- 49:02QA
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