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Jason Yip

Some corrections about the early days of Continuous Integration

I recently read an article by Greg Foster on the Graphite blog: From the 80’s to 2024 — how CI tests were invented and optimized…

2 min read3 days ago

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Beyond “separating deployment from release”

Technical deployment. Detect any obvious technical problems.

1 min read4 days ago

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Beyond “separating deployment from release”

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“What do we protect?” over “What do we cut?”

Reducing the number of “priorities” that an organization is working on is often the correct thing to do, but it’s difficult because it…

1 min readApr 5, 2024

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A set of prioritised efforts. “What do we cut?” focuses loss aversion on the lower priority items. “What do we protect?” focuses loss aversion on the higher priority items.

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Never allow a good sense of urgency go to waste.

“In successful change efforts, the first step is making sure sufficient people act with sufficient urgency — with on-your-toes behavior…

1 min readApr 3, 2024

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Never allow a good sense of urgency go to waste.

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“Dumb” failures vs “what are you going to do?” failures

“Dumb” failures are obvious failures that suggest a lack of care.

1 min readApr 2, 2024

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“Dumb” failures vs “what are you going to do?” failures

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Jason Yip

Questions to consider for post-incident improvement

How might we have detected the problem faster? Preferably before our users do.

1 min readApr 1, 2024

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Faster detection, faster diagnosis, faster containment, reduced impact, prevention

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Jason Yip

Summary and thoughts on Transformed by Marty Cagan

The SVPG Product Operating Model

2 min readMar 20, 2024

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Jason Yip

Process vs people vs results

Bad process + incompetent people + bad results = The worst scenario

1 min readMar 17, 2024

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Output → Outcomes → Impact: a logic model for product development

Derived from the logic model by The Center for Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania which I learned about from Josh…

1 min readMar 16, 2024

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Jason Yip

Problems I have with SAFe-style WSJF

I first wrote about this on my old blog in 2012. 12 years later, they no longer recommend WSJF for story-level prioritisation but the other…

4 min readMar 10, 2024

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Jason Yip

Jason Yip

Senior Manager Product Engineering at Grainger. Extreme Programming, Agile, Lean guy. Ex-Spotify, ex-ThoughtWorks, ex-CruiseControl

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