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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

In other words, the goal is to understand an organization from the inside so well that the group can engage in constructive criticism. Once those passive maneuvers are up and running, the CoPE members merely need to perform regular check-ins, or play their own part if they are participants of the relevant social institution.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems. A framing of systems as being both social and technical ( sociotechnical! ) Initially, as a software developer, it’s tempting to frame the software as an independent system that you work on. is pivotal.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. They are giving some constructive feedback. And people are thanking me for working on that.

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