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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Encourage communal ownership of systems.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. Some of these things are related to cost/benefit tradeoffs, but most are about weak telemetry, instrumentation, and tooling. Latency is often unpredictable.

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Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think

OverOps

Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code. A new report from the Consortium for IT Software Quality ( 1 ) covers the cost of poor software quality, shedding light on those topics. ?? NEW POST ??

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Here’s The Crucial Metrics To Measure Your Software Development Team Effectiveness

Xicom

But, writing the lines of code or the number of hours spent at the office is not how you evaluate the effectiveness of a software developer in doing their job. Because in today’s competitive industry, like software development, quality almost eclipses the quantity of the job done. The budget increased by 160% more than the original.

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Calculating The Cost of Software Quality in Your Organization

OverOps

In a previous post , we looked at the magnitude and impact of the soaring cost of poor software quality in the US and where those hidden costs are typically found. Knowing these values allows management and team members across the company to take action in ensuring high quality at a lower cost.

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How Positive Behavioral Metrics Can Boost Your Software Team

Exadel

As IT professionals, you understand the benefits of establishing clear metrics to gain visibility into how your organization is driving value. The right metrics provide insights into what the organization needs to change and where it is winning. But many companies overlook positive behavioral metrics.

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Book review: Accelerate

Henrik Warne

DevOps in this context means things like continuous delivery, automated tests, trunk-based development, and proactive monitoring of system health. Many aspects of software development are hard to measure. I really liked that the authors have thought hard about what to measure in order to get objective yet useful metrics.