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A Public Commitment to Performance

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October 15, 2013
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A Public Commitment to Performance

Presented at Velocity 2013 NYC.
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October 15, 2013
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Transcript

  1. A Public Commitment to Performance One weird trick to kickstart

    a performance culture Velocity NYC October 15, 2013

  2. @sethwalker

  3. None

  4. http://bit.ly/performanceculture

  5. Who is responsible for performance?

  6. None

  7. You need a performance culture

  8. Changing culture is hard

  9. One weird trick

  10. Etsy -2years

  11. What we had

  12. What we wanted

  13. Weather report

  14. None

  15. Choosing metrics

  16. Key pages

  17. 95th percentile backend

  18. Weekday

  19. or whatever...

  20. Keep it simple

  21. You can change it later

  22. You can change it later

  23. You will change it later

  24. Get your tools in place

  25. Can you measure it?

  26. Repeatable?

  27. None

  28. Woah, embarrassing

  29. It's not as private as you might think

  30. This motivates your team to get better

  31. Consider your audience(s)

  32. Community Engineering Team Velocity

  33. Woah, embarrassing

  34. Numbers are boring

  35. None

  36. Graphs are awesome

  37. None

  38. Celebrate wins

  39. Performance is invisible

  40. None
  41. None
  42. None

  43. Ongoing context

  44. Context for regressions

  45. None

  46. Iterate

  47. Graphs are awesome

  48. None

  49. What's next

  50. One weird trick

  51. Take the long view

  52. A note about privilege

  53. "I love, love, love the latest performance report -- the

    report itself, not just the great numbers." - Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson

  54. Tell them I said it is all good.

  55. Now, you share

  56. Questions? http://bit.ly/performanceculture @sethwalker