Katerina Trajchevska :: Maximizing Your Team's Performance
summary
Claims that context switching and useless meetings are the biggest performance drains and that shifting quality ownership to developers plus incremental CI and test coverage moves teams up the DORA scale. Demonstrates characterization tests and spatie matches snapshots to document legacy behavior, shows replacing a big payment switch with interface-based processors for wire and pioneer and adding wise as an example, explains sprout and replace refactors, and promises 1% every two weeks compounds to ~30% yearly improvement.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:10Team productivity factors
- 6:59Team health metrics
- 9:26Google's DORA metrics
- 11:11Code quality ownership
- 13:42Testing and CI improvements
- 14:03Testing untestable legacy code
- 17:56Developer experience and code design
- 23:37Extending code safely
- 26:28Refactoring with characterization tests
- 30:04Small consistent improvements
- 31:10Q&A
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