These take the exact same amount of time!

A feature is not done until it's:

"Wait, that worked a second ago"

"Can you show me the code from 2.1.4?"

"That deploy broke stuff, roll it back"

Use: Git

Measure: How quickly can you roll back?

What problems look like:

Practices:

New hire spends a week setting up

Someone proposes containers

First "Weird, works on my machine"

Use: Docker Compose

Measure: How quickly can you setup the app?

What problems look like:

Practices:

Some manager finally approves it

Syntax problem

Time spent manually formatting

Still troubleshooting syntax problem

Use: ESLint and Prettier

Measure: How much time do you spend formatting?

What problems look like:

Practices:

Team has an 4 hour argument about style

Someone's commit

reformats the entire codebase

Guess

Check

Use: Cypress and Jest

Measure: How much time on manual testing?

What problems look like:

Practices:

Guess

Guess

Guess

Guess

Guess

Check

Check

Check

Check

What the living fuck that broke something else

Deployed something broken anyway

Can't deploy because it's Friday afternoon

Use: GitHub Actions

Measure: How quickly can you confidently deploy?

What problems look like:

Practices:

Scrambled to fix it and broke something else

Realizing late something won't work in production

Deployment is exhausting because you only do it once a quarter

Forgot to do some manual build task