Engineering Engineering: More than the sum of our parts
summary
Claims that engineering organizations improve by treating them like engineered systems rather than searching for a One True Way, and offers a pragmatic toolkit: apply engineering to engineering, diagnose pathologies (destructive outsourcing, death marches, stack ranking, waterfall, overcommitting clients), use concrete mitigations like feature flags and blast radius control, limit work‑in‑progress, account for full lifecycle costs, adopt continuous feedback and performance management; cites Procore’s scale as real-world context and frames trust and execution as the measurable outcomes.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 0:43Who Am I
- 6:16How Do You Run a Sprint
- 9:06Can You Run Faster without Crutches or with Crutches
- 12:03What Is a Successful Engineering Organization
- 15:24Destructive Outsourcing
- 16:47Can Outsourcing Be a Positive
- 17:39The Pressures That Create Outsourcing
- 22:21Have a Long Term Vision
- 24:19Positives of Stack Ranking
- 27:09Waterfall
- 31:38Excessive Client Commitments
- 32:31Revenue Uncertainty
- 32:57What Can We Do To Prevent Client Commitments
- 34:43What Is Trust in an Organization
- 35:39What Is Engineering Engineering
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