He used a style of writing like: "At Successful Org, Suzy comes in every morning to check the logs from the live production system."
The key differences he mentioned were daily check-in, daily prod rollout, direct access to prod logs, automated workflows... versus multi-week delays, scheduled CAB meetings, manual rollout, etc...
I thought I had bookmarked it, but I guess not.
Did anyone else bookmark the article?
I could rewrite it from memory, but the original made the point very clearly and that's hard to reproduce...
https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.ht...
EDIT: It appears that the author is Tim Cochran, not Martin Fowler as I initially wrote.