Stage 2 · Lesson 7 of 8
Automation and internal tooling
means , bots and small tools that remove repetitive manual work. It is one of the clearest forms of . Examples: one command that sets up the project on a new laptop, a release script, or a dashboard that replaces a weekly report someone builds by hand.
Automation also removes a source of mistakes, because a script does the same steps every time. Pick work the team repeats at least weekly, where the steps are always the same. Then measure the time saved, as the previous topics describe. Keep internal tooling small, documented and in the team , not on your laptop.
Common trapautomating something rare or unstable, or building a clever tool nobody else can maintain.
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- BookFreeSoftware Engineering at Google
Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright · Intermediate
The chapters on testing, CI and large-scale changes: fixing problems at team scale
- BookPaidThe Pragmatic Programmer
Hunt and Thomas · Intermediate · About $45
Automation, broken windows and orthogonality: the habits behind leverage