Amp's 21-person team ships to main without mandatory code review or quarterly goals
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Amp's Quinn and Thorsten Ball say their 21-person team ships code straight to main without mandatory code review, averaging about 90 releases a day with roughly 7.7 minutes from merge to availability.
Instead of quarterly targets, the team holds one weekly planning meeting where each person writes their own goals, and uses feature flags and shared channels in place of formal approvals.
The two say this works because the team is small, aligned, and motivated by revenue and product success. They say it is not a template a 250-person organization could copy by adding AI.
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meng shao@shao__mengXAmp's 21-person team runs without PRs or quarterly goalsAIAmp's Quinn and Thorsten Ball describe a 21-person team that ships to main without mandatory code review, averaging about 90 releases a day with roughly 7.7 minutes from merge to availability. Weekly planning is a single meeting where each person writes their own goals, and feature flags and shared channels replace quarterly targets and formal approvals. They say this works because the team is small, aligned, and motivated by revenue and product success, and is not a template a 250-person organization could copy by adding AI.

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