Jez Humble

8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Jez Humble · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Humble: High Software Performers Outperform Low Performers by 2x
“But I think, again, what the data shows is that Companies that do well on the performance measures we talked about outperform their low performing peers by a factor of two.”
Jez Humble Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:16 a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Humble: Team autonomy without dependencies is a top predictor of IT performance
“That is one of the biggest predictors in our cohort of IT performance is the ability of teams to get stuff done on their own without dependencies on other teams, whether that's testing, or whether it's deploying, or whether it's planning.”
Jez Humble Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:01 a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Humble: Psychological safety during failures is required for innovation
“If people don't feel that when things go wrong, they're going to be supported, they're not going to take risks. And then you're not going to get any novelty because novelty by definition involves taking risks.”
Jez Humble Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 39:47 a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
Jan 2, 2019
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Humble: Software Teams Should Focus on Recovery Rather Than Preventing Failure
“We accept that failure is inevitable because we're building complex systems. So, not how do we prevent failure, but when failure inevitably occurs, how quickly can we detect and fix it?”
Jez Humble Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:59 a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
Jan 2, 2019
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Humble: Reasoning about cause and effect requires working in small batches
“So the same thing is true of organizational change in process and product development as well, by the way, which is working in small batches so that you can actually reason about cause and effects. You know, I changed this thing. It had this effect. Again, tha…”
Jez Humble Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:33 a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Humble: Software engineering first principles do not change every few years
“And the first principles, I mean, they will change over the course of centuries. I mean, we've got modern management versus kind of scientific management, but they don't change over the course of like a couple of years. The principles are still the same. Techn…”
Jez Humble Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 34:23 a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Humble: Research proves culture predictively drives tech and business performance
“And in fact, we measure it in our work, and we can show that culture has a predictive effect on organizational outcomes and on technology capabilities.”
Jez Humble Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 37:37 a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Humble: Mission-Driven Companies Outperform Those Focused Solely on Profit
“In fact, as we know from research, companies that don't have a mission other than making money do less well than the ones that do.”
Jez Humble Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:10 a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
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