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This doesn’t seem like they figured out anything about “high functioning teams”, they just performed a survey.

Like, do these companies actually ship faster, have lower rates of issues, better MTTR, etc? This just says things like “there are more full stack engineers”.

At least the Puppet state of DevOps report gives you a “low, medium, high” categorization. This doesn’t seem to be describing much other than some trends they saw this year.

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Learning is a lot more about observing and surveying than folks typically acknowledge. Indeed, one of the more dangerous things I notice, on a regular basis, is a heavy set of beliefs built up on reasoning without observation. They typically betray far more of the personal wants of the reasoner than they do of reality.

Of course, that way is another strawman. One of only observations with no reasoning on top.

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