Jason Yip – Medium

Jason Yip

Bad idea: “Artificial Intelligence” automatically improves productivity.

AI improves productivity by enabling automation of what could not be previously automated.

5d ago

Productivity = Value of Impact / Cost of Effort. Automation reduces cost of effort. AI (presumably) enables automation of more creative tasks.

5d ago

Bad idea: Platforms automatically improve productivity.

As I’ve said previously, productivity is the ratio of the value of Impact to the cost of Effort.

Jan 25

3 product teams have a capability called “Foo” and a Platform Team has a capability called “Shared Foo”. Arrows pointing from product teams to platform team to consolidate costs. Another product team saying “We could use a Foo…” and an arrow pointing from platform team to product team to reuse capabilities.

Jan 25

Bad idea: Developer experience is equivalent to productivity

The SPACE paper, referencing an earlier Microsoft paper, argues for the importance of considering perceived productivity. This is…

Jan 9

“Productivity numbers are up! “I hate my life” scores are also up but I’m sure that’s fine…”

Jan 9

4X — Explore, Expand, Extract AND Exit

Kent Beck’s 2016 3X model (Explore, Expand, Extract) is essentially a different way of expressing Theodore Levitt’s 1965 product life…

Jan 1

4X — Explore, Expand, Extract AND Exit

Jan 1

Bad idea: You can’t measure productivity

The key points from Martin Fowler’s 2003 article “Cannot Measure Productivity”:

Dec 14, 2024

“We’ve improved deployment frequency and lead time for change.” “Those sound like great improvements but what about the frequency and lead time for impact?”

Dec 14, 2024

The books I liked in 2024

Dec 13, 2024

Dec 13, 2024

Bad ideas about software product development productivity

I’m collecting bad ideas about software product development productivity:

Dec 12, 2024

Dec 12, 2024

There are only 5 ways to improve productivity

UPDATE: Replace “effort” with “cost” to account for the option to use lower cost sources of effort. Hat tip to Joe Troderman.

Nov 24, 2024

Nov 24, 2024

DIY leadership development: Develop leadership skills

Learn the skills to be a competent leader.

Sep 14, 2024

Mapping of leadership skill groups across The Art of Action, Strength Finder 2.0, and For Your Improvement. Directing maps to Strategic Thinking maps to Thought. Leading maps to Influencing and Relationship Building maps to People and Self. Managing maps to Executing maps to Results.

Sep 14, 2024

Company songs, generative AI, and product life cycles

A while ago, I was at the Grainger office in Jacksonville, and I noticed a wall showing a timeline of key historical events at Grainger. I…

Aug 24, 2024

Company songs, generative AI, and product life cycles

Aug 24, 2024

Jason Yip

Jason Yip

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

Following

See all (1,350)

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams