The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Your Dev Team
summary
Connects Marie Kondo’s method to concrete engineering fixes: claims 886 million meetings happen daily and estimates 31 million hours wasted on ineffective meetings, and shows fixes like single-purpose meetings with agendas, 6–8 people, trimmed times (Parkinson’s law) and device bans. Documentation fixes include pairing, measuring docs by having a third person follow them, and an ops vacation metric hitting 90% contact-success. Git workflow advice: avoid git add ., use focus commits, include ticket numbers, keep PRs small and use templates; embraces rotations or debt sprints and pair programming to reduce technical debt.
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chapters (39)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:12Marie Kondo
- 3:25The types of mess we deal with
- 4:16Do not spark joy
- 4:51Whats important to you
- 5:51Meetings
- 6:16Statistics
- 7:58Time wasted
- 8:18tithing principle
- 9:31meeting time
- 11:27meeting distraction
- 12:43documentation
- 14:34paired programming
- 16:03measure effectiveness
- 16:38dream vacation
- 17:45drowning in information
- 19:23documentation organization
- 20:59source control logs
- 21:49get requirements
- 22:54focus commit
- 23:26wildcards
- 24:10commit message
- 25:32physical branches
- 26:18stacking branches
- 26:52pull requests
- 27:34one change file
- 29:02have context
- 29:24use screenshots
- 29:56pull request templates
- 30:57messy code
- 31:23a hundred percent will happen
- 32:33tech debt
- 33:40review
- 34:19technical debt
- 35:03working with a team
- 36:16culture of craftsmanship
- 37:03dev team principles
- 37:34ugly umbrella principle
- 38:46Questions
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