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17 published records
“We actually had the perfect segue because the book I've recommended absolutely the most is called Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt. Another one is Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Abbott... Dave Evans. And the last one is probably Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card. No comment right now on some of his political commentary, but I used to have extra copies in my office when I was a professor and I would just hand it out to my students. It's a fun, just easy nonsense read, but...”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“One book that I love. It's a little dense, but it's really interesting that I love is How to Measure Anything.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think we're going to help a lot of companies move faster, have better and happier engineers, which is going to create infinite value in the world.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Now I will say the next category for lead time for changes by the day is if lead time is between a day and a week.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think one of my superpowers and one of the things that I've been working with my teams on doing and kind of teaching them is, and one of the things that's really leveled up our work in general, is making your work incredibly accessible.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Like pull request time. And so, sometimes we can think about those, and then I think we added a satisfaction metric.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Amazing. This next question I ask everyone, and it's especially appropriate to you, but I don't know if you'll have an answer.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We actually had the perfect segue because the book I've recommended absolutely the most is called Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Make sure you pick metrics that are intention. And I could say it, but people have a hard time wrapping that around their heads because they kept picking things like number of lines of code, never picked number of lines of code.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“There's no such thing as not being in the cloud because if you cannot make it through bursting on demand, bursting like magic, sometimes I joke, right, you're not going to make it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Will I have an over-reliance on it? And what we're seeing is that, probably unsurprisingly, people really fundamentally shift the way they work when they work with an AI-enabled tool like GitHub, Copilot, or Tabnine or others because now, instead of just writing code or having a short auto-complete, you spend more time reviewing code than writing code, right.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We actually had a SaaS offering, so we continued the State of DevOps Report just under the DORA banner, and we had a SaaS offering because so many large companies were like, "I want my own customized measurement, reading, and report.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I also had a master's in accounting because that really helped me make that kind of financial tie and understanding financial statements. And then, after a handful of years kind of walked away from tenure because academia was not convinced that DevOps was a thing, right, that DevOps wasn't real, and State of DevOps Report who I was doing with DORA, DevOps research and assessment in collaboration with Jez Humble and Gene Kim.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“" I wrote a book called Accelerate, which is the first four years of the research compiled and put together and expanded in a few things.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“That's also a lie. So I think there are better ways to think about and deal with that and then try to work with it because and I wrote a paper with Mik Kersten on this several years ago on how data from people and data from systems are really important compliments because we can get certain insights from people that we'll never get from systems.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“If I turn this into a sentence, what do they represent?" And then you want to double check because spurious correlation's one of my favorite websites instead of charts.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I will say I write things down because I get asked them so often, and I want to make sure it is broadly applicable or broadly available, I guess.”
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- Lenny's Podcast