{"id":1761,"date":"2014-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/05\/25\/1719\/"},"modified":"2014-05-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T22:00:00","slug":"1719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/05\/25\/1719\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmund Jorgensen: Speeding Up Your Engineering Org: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmund Jorgensen \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hut8labs.com\/speeding-up-your-eng-org-part-i.html\">Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may have shifted your efforts from the impossible task of making the org go faster to the thankless but crucial job of jealously guarding how engineers spend their time\u2014because as it takes longer and longer to get even simple features out the door, those engineering hours become increasingly precious.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] You&#8217;ve been around long enough to know that there won&#8217;t be any &#8222;calm periods&#8220; when there&#8217;s time for your engineers to scratch these other itches\u2014after the Facebook for Cats integration goes out, you&#8217;ll be right on to integrating with Twitter for Dogs, or LinkedIn for Ferrets. So on this fine morning someone has to make a real and uncomfortable decision: either tell Cindy and Scott to stop complaining and get back to feature work, or let product and the CEO know that you&#8217;re going to spend some engineering hours on something other than features.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] Sometimes the &#8222;more money&#8220; you expect in return comes from features for which customers will pay, but often (as in our thought experiment) it comes in the form of valuable information, or\u2014if you&#8217;re doing it right\u2014a reduction in (or prevention of) latency for future work, which, as we&#8217;ve just shown with our thought experiment, is <em>worth actual money<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmund Jorgensen \u2013 Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality: \u201cYou may have shifted your efforts from the impossible task of making the org go faster to the thankless but crucial job of jealously guarding how engineers spend their time\u2014because as it takes longer and longer to get even simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}