Scale Yourself, Your Team, and Product using Root Cause Analysis

Scale Yourself, Your Team, and Product using Root Cause Analysis

About the Book

Scale Yourself, Your Team, and Product with Root Cause Analysis outlines a simple method, tailored for software development, that can stop you from repeating the same mistakes again and again. It works for you, and it works for teams and products.

You've just deployed your latest code changes to production and all hell has broken loose. You have a test suite, but still something has happened. Payments aren't going through. Customers can't sign up.

Then your boss comes to your desk because it’s the second time this has happened. Your day can't get any worse.

… that is, until the fix you deploy brings the entire site down.

Which has also happened before.

Sound familiar? Developers and development teams around the world go through these exact same scenarios time and time again. They waste precious time just getting back to a level playing field after an outage, mistake, or bug that made it through, and that keeps making it through time and time again.

Morale dips. Developers are afraid to ship code to production. New features take longer. Customers get bored.

Save yourself from those days where things go really badly because of preventable mistakes. Pick up a copy today!

About The Kaizen Series

The Kaizen Series are practical, targeted handbooks that help you to change the way you work for the better. They are small, one-time investments designed and proven to bring orders of magnitude in return to you personally, as well as the people you work and interact with. Kaizen Series topics are distilled from over a decade of practice in the field of Software Engineering, Team Management and Project Delivery.

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About the Author

John McDowall
John McDowall

John is the Founder of Revolution Lake, a different way to build software products. Prior to this, he was CTO of 500px, a popular photo-sharing web service. He's been developing software for over 23 years and leading teams and startups for over 10 (and he has the white hairs to prove it.)

Originally from Scotland, John has been an Lean practitioner since 2003. He successfully applies Lean principles to leading large-scale government projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as startups worth $100.

These days he is mostly a Rails craftsman and Team Lead for Hire. Ask him about Kaizen and his fear of entropy.

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