Move Fast But Don't Break Things
summary
Grew product and tech from ~12 engineers to over 50 while company reaches ~130 people and lands one top‑10 Australian customer plus five ASX 200 clients. Implements ISO 27001 in nine months and builds observability with Datadog, Wormly.com and PagerDuty; separates deploys from go‑live using feature flags to keep pace without surprising customers. Organizes work into six value streams, keeps teams at 3–7 people with a ~six‑month shelf life, uses Nicobot for lightweight timesheets and conventional commits for automated changelogs.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:40A lot has changed
- 2:43Andys background
- 5:00Bike Exchange
- 6:28Marketplace
- 7:27Challenges
- 7:46Security
- 12:00Communication
- 18:03Monitoring
- 20:20Growth
- 28:02Money
- 30:10Values
- 33:37Continuous Improvement
- 36:37Decisions
- 40:12Support
- 43:02Owning Your Process
- 45:32Stability
- 46:25Summary
- 47:07Questions
- 47:47Bringing people up to speed
- 49:02Changing teams every 6 months
- 50:05Change fatigue
- 51:24Working groups
- 52:34Fun activities
- 53:41Meetings
- 55:17Unnecessary Meetings
- 57:19Limited Thinking
