Technical debt. Everything looks fine above water… but why are we so slow?!?

Mathias Verraes A simple ethical heuristic is "Would the world be a better place if this enterprise was twice as successful or half as successful?"

Ppl who outsource software often say that a company should focus on its core business. More and more, tho, software _is_ the company’s core business, whether or not they see it like that. If you fail without it, it’s a core capability. Instead of outsourcing, learn how to do it.

Initial conditions: m1=63.1 m2=132.2 m3=74.4 (solar masses) v1x=-1.033 v1y=3.005 v2x=-4.026 v2y=1.664 v3x=-5.243 v3y=-0.377 (km/s) x1=17 y1=-3 x2=7 y2=17 x3=1 y3=-1 (AU from center) Music: What Did You Do (The Expanse) – Shorter

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Developing agility is largely a matter of convincing people to stop doing the ineffective stuff they don’t even question.

In software, when something is painful, the way to reduce the pain is to do it more frequently, not less.

A great talk by one of our newest Ferocians, Adel Smee, on how to make one of those huge life decisions - picking your employer youtube.com/watch?v=G_TW5L…

Who's the best risk & compliance person you've ever worked with? Expanding the team at Up :)

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Good middle managers matter a lot! Who the plant manager is in car factory explains more of the productivity difference between plants than who the CEO of the company is. Replacing a bottom quartile manager with a top quartile one decreases hours needed to build a car by 30%.

And not just manufacturing! My paper shows the difference in quality among managers in the game industry (called "producers" as the founder of EA thought it sounded Hollywood) accounted for 22% of variation in game revenue - much more than any other role! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

It applies to startups too. They often avoid hiring middle managers, for fear that it will make their company bureaucratic & less innovative. But this paper shows the opposite is true: startups become 33% more likely to develop product innovations when they add middle mangers!

Forget 10x engineers, go for 10x teams. This paper analyzes 200k teams ranging from sports to politics, and finds that performance follows a power law 70% of the time. So there are a lot of star teams & those teams perform much better than average ones. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/or…

Lots of replies say their company could not do this even if they wanted to because of regulations. I remember banks saying they cannot do CD because of regulations. Then neobanks like Monzo came along and deploy hundreds of times/day. Same "regulations" x.com/GergelyOrosz/s…

I've been building package management systems for over a decade (see github.com/keithpitt/vend…) Now in 2023, Buildkite will take all that knowledge, combine it with learnings and techniques from the fastest moving engineering teams in the world, and share it with every developer

Huzzah!! As requested by many, many people, the recording of my #fintechdevcon talk ("Compliance & Regulatory Standards Are NOT Incompatible With Modern Development Best Practices") is now online!! 😍 fintechdevcon.io/videos/?utm_so… (page down, it's the first talk after "Keynotes")

Celebrating 6 laps around the sun with Up

We’re scaling the team that leads the industry in banking innovation. If you are a software engineer and that sounds interesting to you, get in touch! up.com.au/careers/softwa…