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We stopped batching work for release day. The swarm keeps every change small enough to merge.
Hana Kobayashi
Engineering Manager, Brightwater
The goal
Brightwater shipped every two weeks, and every release day ended with a rollback or two.
The run
Each morning the team writes the day’s goals in Slack.
The swarm opens one small pull request per goal.
Analyst checks checkout speed before anything merges.
What changed
Releases went from two a month to seven, and rollbacks fell by 40%.