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Leadership Stories from Slack by Michael Lopp

Level-up Engineering

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What I'm Hearing Is That You Have to Be Contexturally Learning

When i got to slack, any engineer could push anything to production whenever they wanted. It was a little bit o, sort of shoot from the hip, kind of releasing way too much. I remember one particular day where we were down twice and the same day,. Like, down, hard, down, like old my gosh, down. The point of the story was, this isn't a nice to have. Thisis, weare business critical, and work is going to stop for a lot of people when we're down. We needed to take that more seriously. And it took us literally stopping one day. He sais, we're not going to release anything until we figure

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