A Teacher, an Economist and a Developer Walk Into a Bar
summary
Team uses concrete numbers and tools to choose actions not slogans: SonarQube flags 97 bugs 7 vulnerabilities 1987 code smells so the team adopts a habit of remove five code smells and one bug per completed story to make steady progress. Economics shows a rewrite by three devs for 12 months (~250k) only breaks even years later while escalation of commitment and sunk costs doom big bangs. Operational playbook includes aviate navigate communicate administrate, dead letter queues, log rotation and communities of practice to spread fixes and keep momentum.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 9:21Opportunity Cost and Decision-Making
- 21:23Agile Manifesto
- 35:31Communities of Practice
- 42:31Take-aways
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