9 Productivity

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As your CTO, I have a couple of expectations about productivity.

We Will Never Ship S**T

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As your new CTO, I expect that we will never ship S**T.

I’m sure you know what S**T stands for. As your CTO, I expect that we will not ship S**T.

Have you ever shipped S**T? Most of us have. I have. It didn’t feel good. I didn’t like it. The users didn’t like it. The managers didn’t like it. Nobody liked it.

So why do we do it? Why do we ship S**T?

Because somehow or another, we decided that we had no choice. Perhaps it was a deadline that ...

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