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The question from LaunchDarkly, btw, was as follows (asked to "500 software developers across a range of industries and job titles"): > Have you or someone you
by lelandfe 4y ago
The question from LaunchDarkly, btw, was as follows (asked to "500 software
developers across a range of industries and job titles"):
> Have you or someone you worked with ever left a job due to
pressures from over minimizing mistakes (i.e. avoiding rollbacks
or failed deployments)?[0]
...Which I also would not be comfortable summarizing as "minimizing deployment errors"
[0] https://resources.launchdarkly.com/ebooks/release-assurance-report https://resources.launchdarkly.com/ebooks/release-assurance-...
- edmcnulty101 4y agooh that is so sneaky and that would never fly in a scientific study.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoWhat does "over minimising mistakes" mean? I would expect that the target for 'mistakes', especially serious ones' is zero (while accepting that it may be asymptotic).
- Aeolun 4y agoI think one they’re talking about 3 month long QA cycles for every deployment.
- nrmitchi 4y agoIn any reasonable setting this would be considered priming the respondent for a particular answer and should definitely not be trusted as an unbiased response.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoNot far off from handing packs of free cigarettes to medical conference attendees, having an exit poll ask them which brand of cigarettes they have in their pocket, and using the results in marketing like ”69% of doctors smoke Narcoholic brand cigarettes!”