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Yes! I was pleasantly surprised myself. That just means that HN is really good place.

Regarding your questions: you could follow advice mindcrime gave earlier, in 3 easy steps :)

Project management is another good option, though I wouldn't want technical things being replaced by paperwork.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Thanks for your support.

Finding a "right" company can be challenging indeed.

If you don't mind... Could you elaborate a bit what do you mean by saying "[...]they lack the right mindset" ? What is the "right mindset" for developer?

This recipe should be called "3 easy steps to become Six Sigma consultant". You could even write an ebook and sell it on the internet :)

On a serious note - I think the pattern is clear and it could be replicated successfully on different areas of life. Thank you for taking your time to present it here.

Thanks for the ideas. That link with the movie about startup iteration was really funny.

I'm familiar with ITIL. At work we calculate our SLAs etc. So that might be an option after all.