Teams that design monitoring first reduce production issues by 60%.
Traditional approach: build feature → ship → add monitoring when something breaks. ODD approach: design dashboards → define SLOs → build feature → ship with monitoring → iterate based on data.
ODD teams: 60% fewer production issues, 40% faster incident resolution, 30% better capacity planning. The cost: 10-15% more time per feature upfront. The savings: 30-40% less time on incidents downstream.
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