Moving Fast at Scale
summary
High-performing organizations combine small cross-functional teams aligned to business domains, clear autonomy and accountability, and disciplined problem definition by asking what problem are you trying to solve. Measured gains are concrete: elite teams show 46× more frequent deploys, 2500× faster lead time, 7× lower change-failure rate and 2600× faster MTTR. Real results include an eBay example where incremental machine‑learned ranking yields ~2% revenue uplift and faster search pages another ~2%, showing the value of fewer things more done and A/B‑tested, incrementally shipped work.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:13Stability
- 6:24Traditional Organizations
- 8:40Business / Domain Alignment
- 12:16Autonomy and Accountability
- 15:33Engineering Discipline
- 17:01The Curse of Knowledge
- 22:08Focus and Prioritization
- 26:58Continuous Delivery: Iterative Development
- 30:38eBay Machine Learned Ranking
- 32:45eBay Site Speed
- 36:38Minimal Viable Feature
- 38:30Definition of Done
