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Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)

First published 2016.

Adding and removing organizational overhead is relatively easy compared to increasing an organization’s capacity to deploy code. As I was drifting off to sleep yesterday, I visualized the sawtooth-shaped “changes per deployment” graph and it struck me that maybe we had organizational overhead all wrong. Nobody is going to own up to doing it on purpose, but perhaps the organization’s emergent response is locally optimal—change the thing that is easiest to change that will relieve the pressure.

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