The Subversive Structure of the World's Best-Performing Dev Teams w/ A Radical Enterprise Author Matt K. Parker
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You ever get the feeling that the way most companies are set up doesn’t really make sense?
That the passion you have for coding and tech gets sucked out when you do it for a business, instead of it being amplified?
Matt K. Parker had that realization… hard.
A third-generation programmer, Matt’s epiphany that there was something wrong with the way the majority of the world sets up its teams and workplaces led him on a journey to explore the way the world’s best companies operate.
After diving into case studies, academic research and leveraging his own professional experience, Matt concluded that the most productive companies all had one thing in common: They were radical.
Radical in how they structure their employees. Radical in how they treat their employees. Radical in how they empower their employees.
Fortunately for us, Matt stopped by Dev Interrupted to share some conclusions from his new book “A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations.”
One of our favorite recordings to date, this is your ticket if you’re looking for some inspiration on how to increase productivity while decreasing BS.
Episode Highlights Include:
- (1:23) Programming with punch cards
- (8:26) Reducing people to human machines
- (13:07) Knowledge work has an endless number of problems to solve
- (17:34) 9 out of 10 employees would be willing to donate 24% of their lifetime earnings to have more meaning in their work
- (24:01) Matt’s Four Imperatives
- (36:13) Feature factories vs outcome factories
- (41:57) What is good for people is good for business
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