Master the 10x Delivery System for Superior Software Engineering
summary
Framework that measures delivery as 0.1x, 1x, 5x and ~9.5x using concrete metrics: percent of time spent on non‑valuable work, ratio of work with expected business value and percent that actually ships. Case studies show 0.1x (about one in 140 items ships value), 1x (80% time on non‑value), 5x/9.5x (98%+ of work has expected value, failure-to-ship <1%, multiple daily deploys). Prescribed practices include a business value filter, restless continuous refactoring, hiring change agents (~30%), and evolving via a new startup-like unit rather than big rewrites.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:04Defining business value in software
- 7:37Types of work in software engineering
- 14:450.1x delivery system explained
- 21:501X delivery system explained
- 25:015X delivery system explained
- 26:279.5X delivery system explained
- 29:16Building from scratch to 10X
- 32:51Transforming existing organizations
- 37:2510X delivery system core values
- 43:51Key practices for 10X delivery
- 47:02Q&A and book promotion
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