Ask Your Developer
How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
Top Ideas in This Book
- You should build any software that differentiates you from competitors
- World class companies operate on a much higher level in scale, talent acquisition and development, and standards of performance
- Experimentation is the prerequisite for innovation and great infrastructure enables experimentation
- Coding requires high creativity and resembles art or music more than math
- The essence of autonomy is trust to make decisions
- To learn about the environment at a software company, ask what happened after the last system outage
- Foster loyalties and culture around stream-aligned teams, not functional units like engineering or design
- The biggest risk for growing companies is becoming inward facing
- To assess whether a company is inward or outward facing, ask people what customer problem they are working on
How strongly do I recommend this book? 9/10
