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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. Such end-to-end continuity is paramount to reduce time to market and make rapid changes. Set error budget. A DevOps lifecycle.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

Continuous improvement is an integral part of being Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. The VP liked what I had to say.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

If not, you can hire consultants. Continuous improvement is an integral part of Agile, so shouldn’t you kaizen your way to Agile in the first place? If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.