News Summary

• When point releases become more important than the product itself, you are incentivising Verschlimmbesserung.
• Your engineering teams are not failing.
• They are optimising for the metrics you gave them.
• How you measure and incentivise your teams tells them exactly what you value.
• If the metric rewards churn, you get churn.
• Is new always better?
• Stability is a feature.
• Knowing when not to ship is an engineering discipline.
• The Germans built a word for it.
• Perhaps we should start using it.