The astonishing value of speed
summary
Argues that achieving intraday lead times (commit-to-production under a day) cuts costs, lowers burnout and doubles the chance to meet org goals—based on State of DevOps findings—and shows concrete wins: ruthless automation to eliminate manual tasks, fewer configuration flags, far smaller project backlogs, and cross-functional teams that swarm outages instead of spinning emergency task forces. Cites studies that ~20% of code is frequently used and recommends Michael Feathers’ legacy techniques and CI/CD/Kanban as practical first steps.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 11:20The role of IT
- 14:30Higher organizational performance
- 16:01Cutting off manual tasks
- 17:12Simplifying tasks
- 20:22Configuration frenzy
- 23:36Project overheads
- 32:03Effects of going fast 2/2
