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I thought I was going to have to screengrab my Kindle but my copy of #AskYourDeveloper arrived just in time for me to do it the old fashioned way.
It’s available here: askyourdeveloper.com
A quick excerpt:
It’s available here: askyourdeveloper.com
A quick excerpt:
(We’re getting really high tech for this one.) 
As you’d expect for a book designed to argue for a change in standard practices in the cooridors of power, much of it is aimed at decisionmakers for whom these sort of things are novel insights, rather than something they’ve read since middle school on BBSes.
Jeff Lawson (@jeffiel) has a book coming out tomorrow.
Ask Your Developer is two stories: one of businesses getting value out of devs being in "the rooms where it happens", and one about devs taking their rightful place in the economy they're building. #AskYourDeveloper
Ask Your Developer is two stories: one of businesses getting value out of devs being in "the rooms where it happens", and one about devs taking their rightful place in the economy they're building. #AskYourDeveloper
I'm enormously bullish on this thesis, and some Stripe Atlas' work is featured in the book.
Importantly, the key to a lot of our success was a cross-functional dynamite-all-the-silos approach to building the Atlas product. Many of our best ideas came from User Ops.
Importantly, the key to a lot of our success was a cross-functional dynamite-all-the-silos approach to building the Atlas product. Many of our best ideas came from User Ops.
This harkens back to a phrase that I flagrantly steal from Jeff all the time: "software people." I think that there is an emerging mindset, almost a tribe, of people who truly Get It with respect to the capabilities of software.
Not all software people write it directly.
Not all software people write it directly.
