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The group begins to put their arms around the changes they'll need to make to optimize their delivery practices. Starting with a discussion of the worst form of laziness - and how kanban can help address this - we move on to version control, effective peer reviews, good capacity planning, and using reliability as a primary KPI.

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Harrison, D., Lively, K. (2019). Where Do I Start?. In: Achieving DevOps. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4388-6_2

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