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Full Ownership for Bug Fixes Early in my career, I heard a funny story about senior management declaring that the project needs to be feature-complete by a specific date. “It is understandable if some bugs exist – they can be fixed later on. But the project should be feature-complete this quarter, no matter what!” To which engineers promptly responded by filing a bug for every single feature that hadn’t yet been built, and declaring that “The project is now 100% feature complete! Only bug-fixes are now remaining.”

Moneyball for Software Teams – An Imperfect Heuristic for Quantifying Dev Performance

software.rajivprab.com

A company’s culture is the keeper of its mindset. It’s how a company infuses its responsible innovation ethos into every employee and stakeholder—and pushes away those who don’t buy into that ethos. A company’s governance is the protector of its mechanisms. The board must understand how the business model, algorithmic canaries, and relevant metrics support the mindset, and then defend those elements when they come under pressure.

Intended Consequences

Hemant Taneja and Kevin Maney

Man’s often wrong but generally useful psychological tendencies are quite numerous and quite different. The natural consequence of this profusion of tendencies is the grand general principle of social psychology: Cognition is ordinarily situation-dependent, so that different situations often cause different conclusions, even when the same person is thinking in the same general subject area.

Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, John Collison, and Warren Buffett

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