How Teams Actually Work
Four principles that turn a group of people into a shipping machine.
Cadence beats heroics
We ship twice a week, every week. Predictable rhythm means no death marches before launch.
Ownership, not committees
One person owns every decision. Everyone else weighs in, but nobody gets a veto.
Measure the boring stuff
Deploy frequency, rollback rate, time-to-merge. The numbers nobody posts about tell the real story.
Done means documented
If it's not in the handbook, it doesn't exist. Six months from now, someone new needs to find it.