Quotes About Performance

do not confound playing with playing a part.

There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.

Of course I know how to drive. Now, if you ask me if I know how to drive well, the answer would be different.

I stride to the ring where Cole and River are still hammering at each other. I remove my shirt and drop it to the floor. "Woo-hoo," Ali calls. "Take it all off.

He was here! And he was performing live and in-person girl porn—household tasks!

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

Passion and performance. You can't have one without the other.

every work center is made up of four things: the machine, the man, the method, and the measures.

It's difficult to overstate the enormity of this problem—it affects every organization, independent of the industry we operate in, the size of our organization, whether we are profit or non-profit. Now more than ever, how technology work is managed and performed predicts whether our organizations will win in the marketplace, or even survive.

high performers use a disciplined approach to solving problems. This is in contrast to the more common practice of using rumor and hearsay, which can lead to the unfortunate metric of mean time until declared innocent—how quickly can we convince everyone else that we didn't cause the outage. When there is a culture of blame around outages and problems, groups may avoid documenting changes and displaying telemetry where everyone can see them to avoid being blamed for outages.

Remember, outcomes are what matter—not the process, not controls, or, for that matter, what work you complete.

As measured by employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS). This is a significant finding, as research has shown that "companies with highly engaged workers grew revenues two and a half times as much as those with low engagement levels. And [publicly traded] stocks of companies with a high-trust work environment outperformed market indexes by a factor of three from 1997 through 2011." DevOps Helps

how we design our organization dictates how work is performed, and, therefore, the outcomes we achieve. Throughout

Incidentally, until you do this, no matter how many more Brents you hire, Brent will always remain your constraint. Anyone you hire will just end up standing around.

outcomes are what matter—not the process, not controls, or, for that matter, what work you complete.

high performers were twice as likely to exceed profitability, market share, and productivity goals. And,

In the technology value stream, we optimize for downstream work centers by designing for operations, where operational non-functional requirements (e.g., architecture, performance, stability, testability, configurability, and security) are prioritized as highly as user features.

for those organizations that provided a stock ticker symbol, we found that high performers had 50% higher market capitalization growth over three years. They also had higher employee job satisfaction, lower rates of employee burnout, and their employees were 2.2 times more likely to recommend their organization to friends as a great place to work.

We should also collect telemetry on how long it takes us to execute our builds and tests. By

Monitoring is so important that our monitoring systems need to be more available and scalable than the systems being monitored.

we must ensure that the applications we build and operate are creating sufficient telemetry.

Indeed, one of the findings in the 2015 State of DevOps Report validated that the age of the application was not a significant predictor of performance; instead, what predicted performance was whether the application was architected (or could be re-architected) for testability and deployability.

As Sensei W. Edwards Deming once observed, 'a bad system will beat a good person every time.

This is all just corporate theater. I don't like it but accept it for what it is.