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Introducing quality ratchets: A tool for managing complex systems

Using ratchets to improve the quality of your software
July 01, 2022

When the scale and complexity of the systems you’re responsible for means there’s no way to fix all of the issues at once, you need a new toolkit.

There’s a beautiful simplicity to fixing bugs as a more junior engineer. You own a feature or a subsystem, people file bugs against it, and you hunker down and fix them.

Fast forward to working in a leadership role, whether it is as a Staff+ engineer or a manager, and things are less straightforward. There’s no simple hunkering down to fix the issues arising from the interactions of four different systems, two of which are controlled by third parties.

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