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Deleting Internal Tools: A Year of Saying No
Zoe Kimura
- When
- Wednesday, September 161:15 PM – 1:45 PM · 30 min
- Where
- Room 2BFort Mason Center, San Francisco
About this session
We removed nineteen internal tools in twelve months and replaced them with four. How we chose, how we migrated people who did not want to move, and the two deletions we regret.
Speaker
Zoe Kimura
Engineering Manager, Fernbrook
Zoe leads the platform team at Fernbrook and spent the past year replacing internal tools with fewer, better ones. She keeps a public list of everything she deleted.
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