Too Long; Didn't Read
When Stas Zvinyatskovsky, Ed Kraay and team began to pull Yahoo!’s <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/software-development" target="_blank">software development</a> out of the stone ages, teams averaged 20 weeks to build, test, stabilize and deploy large software releases. Every release was accompanied by painful, stressful production incidents and programmers worked overtime, fixing defects, handling emergencies and just trying to survive. One developer said, “We work really hard but we don’t know if we’re making a difference.”