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My reading was that there were two paths the author highlights:

1) Increase deployment capacity (which I'm reading as frequency, and I fully agree with)

2) Increase change capacity per deployment by making it less likely that a set of changes will fail through tests, monitoring, structural, and team changes

#2 is very much geared to "ship more changes in one deployment" which is where my disagreement lies. I think you should still do all those things, but that increasing the size of the bundle is explicitly an anti-goal.

I think you're better off, as a rule of thumb, making fewer changes per deployment if you want to reduce risk.

But -- that is my particular reading of it.

I think we may be violently agreeing - I certainly agree with everything you have said here.

That's indeed how I wrote it, but I could have worded it better. Very much agree that the insights in The Goal go far beyond the scope of The Phoenix Project.

I am disagreeing with the conclusion of the article, and asserting that more and smaller deployments are the better way to go.

As someone with astigmatism, the glow on the text makes it near impossible to read.

Teaching maths without "Maths Language" is like teaching programming without a Programming Language.

This is, unfortunately, a misconception.

Sure, a bullet the same size or smaller will 'fit' in a given barrel, but a depending on its weight and dimensions it will, at best perform equally, and at worst destroy the barrel.

But a bullet isn't the whole story; the rest of the cartridge has to fit snugly for the action of the gun to lock properly. Again, best case - the gun doesn't fire. Worst case, the action blows up.

This is a pretty simplified overview, but unfortunately the assertion above is a (pretty absurd) myth. Sorry :(

Second they enforce this, I'm unsubscribing

It's not homoiconic, which makes it not a lisp for me.

Sounds like you are being overworked. A 9-5 as an Eng Manager is achievable, but you might need to jump ship to find it.

Working late has a huge knock-on effect on your social life and ability to interact with society around you. That's probably contributing to your burnout.

If there's budget or willingness, having someone in that timezone who can perform your role for that meeting may be possible.

I'd be very wary of taking any regular work outside of your contracted hours unless there is a lot of $$$$ involved and your relationships can survive it.

You might get some mileage out of a long vacation, or agressively pruning your work hours.