Small change
A small change is a narrowly scoped, independently manageable modification whose effects and causes can be evaluated with relatively low risk.
Shipping Go: Develop, deliver, discuss, design, and go again
A small piece of work is a development practice of limiting each deliverable to a small, independently manageable unit.
- How it is used
- Uses independently manageable increments to invite feedback, reduce work in progress, and deliver customer value early.
- How deep it goes
- Explains delivery and review decomposition with concrete examples, while leaving the exact task-sizing rule to each team.
- Examples
- Uses a minimal Go HTTP service, curl verification, Git commits, automated delivery, and a 2,000-line review split into ten smaller reviews.
- What you can do after
- Build useful increments, merge them quickly, and improve them through automated delivery and customer feedback.
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Effective Conversational AI
A narrowly scoped system modification whose effects and causes can be evaluated with relatively low risk.
- How it is used
- Improves conversational AI through measured, reversible changes to one problem at a time.
- How deep it goes
- Defines a measure-identify-implement-deploy-repeat procedure and contrasts focused changes with broad, unpredictable modifications.
- Examples
- Uses retraining one intent, changing one dialogue step, and varying prompt whitespace as examples of scoped modifications.
- What you can do after
- Diagnose changes through baseline metrics, targeted deployment, effect tracking, and rollback when performance declines.
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Related concepts
- work in progressaddresses · Work in progress is work that has started but is not yet complete.
- code reviewconfigures · Code review is the systematic examination of source code or proposed changes to identify problems and assess or improve quality.
- changekind of · A change is a modification to a system, requirement, behavior, process, practice, tool, or codebase that makes it different over time.
- deliveryproduces · Delivery is the process of making information, software, or software capabilities available to intended recipients or consumers.
- language modelconfigures · A language model is a computational model that represents patterns in linguistic tokens to estimate their probabilities and predict or generate sequences of them.
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