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Key Takeaways from The Effective Engineer
- The Effective Engineer book is all about improving personal productivity techniques for engineers in order to increase their impact on their teams and companies. It is a practical guide that teaches skills to deliver results with less work. Effective Engineers produce results by focusing on high-leverage activities, optimizing for learning, prioritizing regularly to reduce opportunity cost, investing in iteration speed, automating testing, managing technical debt, reducing operational complexity, failing fast and relentlessly automating to recover quickly. To invest in the growth of their teams, Engineers should surround themselves with great advisers, invest in team onboarding, promote shared code ownership, build collective wisdom through post-mortems, and hire the best.
- Effective Engineers understand that personal productivity is a powerful multiplier of compound learning and results. Therefore, their mindset is oriented towards results and impact production. Adopting a growth mindset that optimizes for learning accelerates their professional growth and achievement of career goals.
- Effective Engineers focus on high-leverage activities that are impactful, not just easy wins. At least 80% of productivity should come from 20% of work. By prioritizing work, they increase the chance of working on important tasks that directly produce value, enabling them to get the right things done on time.
- Investing in iteration speed accelerates learning. Engineers should adopt Continuous Deployment, as time-saving tools, to go fast and break things, enabling the shorter feedback loop needed to discover new learning opportunities.
- Measuring and validating ideas early is one of the most effective ways to determine which features and products to build, reducing the opportunity cost of working on wrong ideas.
- Effective Engineers should automate testing, manage technical debt, reduce operational complexity to handle issues quickly, and fail fast to save time and debug easily. Additionally, investing in team growth, surrounding yourself with great advisers, promoting shared code ownership, building collective wisdom through post-mortems, and hiring the best can help to build great products and services, and lead to their career growth.
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