Adrian Cockcroft Speeding Up Innovation

CraftConf May 2019
Speeding Up Innovation
Adrian Cockcroft - VP Cloud Architecture Strategy at AWS

✅ "Smaller changes are better"

✅ "Lots of small changes"

✅ "Change one small thing at a time"

✅ "De-couple new code from new feature"

✅ "Incrementally change system with many small safe updates"

✅ "Turn on features for testing"

✅ Small changes

- less risk
- faster problem detection
- faster repair
- less work in progress
- less time merging changes
- happier developers
- faster flow

✅ "Learn to do small things quickly"

✅ "Build and test cost in $ and people: drive to reduce"

✅ "Number of tickets filed per deploy: drive to one"

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