How DevOps Could’ve Saved The SuperSonics
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Claim: Better alignment and engineering practices could have changed the outcome — owners seek public money, city refuses, owners sell and the team relocates. Evidence cited: Key Arena holds 17,000, Chesapeake Energy Arena holds 18,200, 41 years in Seattle, failed stadium funding and lawsuits. Concrete mechanisms named are goal alignment, breaking silos, creating feedback loops, measuring the right metrics and collaborating on a remodel plan; no exotic tool, just changed incentives and decisions.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:17The Seattle Supersonics
- 1:32How Devops Could Have Saved the Supersonics
- 4:46Would Devops Really Have Saved a Team That Was in Seattle for 41 Years
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