Big batch-size deployments lower the feedback cycle. With small batch deployments, we can get feedback early on in the product. With big batches, we wait for the deployment date. And if everything goes well, we start getting feedback. Adjusting the product according to the feedback takes even more time because we...
When we have bigger-size deployments, the deployment team might seem like they own the changes. The teams who made the change can lack ownership. If the batch has a problem, who will send a hotfix? Source(s): Small batches for the win-Continuous Delivery; Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon | Comment
Deploy smaller batches until the transaction cost (cost of deployment, cost of people and time, infrastructure cost, etc.) makes smaller batches inefficient. Big batches have other costs, such as the number of people needed to align increases with code freezes, communication, and testing. And also, the possibility...
Don't act, do it. When you are doing something, don't act like you are doing it. If your procrastination comes from being in motion (preparing or acting like you are doing), you need to change something. Instead of simply satisfying yourself and feeling better from vaguely doing something, focus on what you do and...
Naming the actions, especially the ones we do without thinking, increases the consciousness of the action. When we repeatedly do the same actions, we start to form habits. In Kahneman's words, our actions move to system one (conscious) from system two (automatic) (Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman) when we get...
Habit stacking is a technique to tie a new habit into an existing one. Old habits already have cues everywhere. They have certain times and places embedded in them. Our habits work with cues coming from time and place. To form a new habit, instead of defining a specific time and location, we can simply attach the...
"If you want to make a habit a big part of your life, make the cue a big part of your environment." Smokers have many cues around them. They always have a reason to light up a cigarette. People cannot form new habits or stop the bad ones because most people live in an environment someone else designed for them,...
Reduce cues of bad habits. Increase exposure to good habits and related things by putting them on sight and making them obvious. Self-control is a short-term strategy while changing the environment is a long-term strategy to form habits. Source(s): Atomic Habits by James Clear Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon |...
If you want to learn something and grow yourself on that topic constantly, you need to keep your learning level in the "just manageable difficulty." If the challenge is too hard, it demotivates you. If it's too easy, you get bored. This is called The Goldilocks Rule. If you are learning how to write code, don't try...
Always spend a minimum of 20 minutes before asking for any help. Never spend 40 minutes before asking for any help. Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon | Comment
If you want to climb Mount Everest, you don't start by going there and walking up. You first start in small mountains and build up your skills gradually. After you master the necessary skills and build up your body for the challenge, you plan to climb Everest. Even when you start climbing to the highest mountain in...
Similar to knowledge acquiring, being confident and pursuing to be certain makes you more uncertain. The more you read and learn, the less you know. The more uncertain you are, the more you are open to learning and changing. The more you are open to uncertainty, the more comfortable you will feel when you encounter...
