The Sum of Small Signals: How Measuring Small Decisions Can Transform Engineering Leadership

Slides available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DsEfFML_VDXx7CFWWyb2qSCAdIaEXTnqWUPK0K-foz8/preview#slide=id.p

The idea of accumulating marginal gains transformed British cycling from a century of also-ran irrelevance to a decade of world dominance, today every team in every major sport recognizes this as the table stakes of success.

Software isn't a sport, but still: we can have that. A revolution of that caliber is within our grasp. But not if we're measuring CI throughput and doing surveys every six months; by then, all the decisions that matter have already been made. So let's talk about how we can see into our developer processes early, learn how to interpret those signals, and build world-beating teams out of the engineers and leaders you already have.