check out this post about twitter's "engineering effectiveness" team: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/flowers/ http://www.gigamonkeys.com/flowers/ in general, it's

check out this post about twitter's "engineering effectiveness" team: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/flowers/ http://www.gigamonkeys.com/flowers/ in general, it's a great productivity booster across the board to have a team doing this; the main problem is getting buy-in from orgs, because the time and effort wasted when you don't have one are so pervasive as to be largely invisible.