Last week we looked at ways to waste time in software projects, so this time let's have a look at how a healthy software project can look like. Here is a list of health indicators that your software project is healthy.
... and if you have a healthy software project, you probably want to deploy your great work fast and often. However, often-times in bigger companies are hesitant to have very frequent deploy cycles. Charity Majors is giving a great list of common excuses or fears people have and which biases they could be based on. One of the rare articles where the footnotes are at least as interesting as the article.
It seems intuitive that computers are a general-purpose technology that should vastly improve overall productivity all over the world. However, so far economists cannot confirm seeing this improvement in productivity. This article is explaining what needs to happen for us to get there.
... and as a last little bonus link in this section, we want to share with you a great podcast many of us at Doctolib like to listen to: Darknet Diaries is a cyber-security focused show that has great storytelling and super interesting stories combined with excellent production quality. A great episode to start with is the Shadow Brokers episode, because many other stories reference this one, but generally you can't pick a wrong one.
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