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Treat Engineers As Real Users
- Engineers are users too and deserve the same product discipline applied to consumer apps.
- Pia Nilsson used user research and onboarding metrics to discover interruptions and poor discoverability were doubling engineer ramp time to ~60 days.
Spaghetti Code Slowed Engineers Down
- Spotify's internal codebase was vast and messy, nicknamed spaghetti code.
- Tyson Singer found AB testing code in mobile clients nearly indecipherable, causing engineers to copy-paste working bits rather than understand systems.
Unify Autonomy With A Marketplace
- A marketplace model can unify an autonomous org without mandating standards.
- Backstage visualizes services and exposes plugins so teams voluntarily pick best tools, letting strong ideas rise to the top.