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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. The same applies to coaching.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations. Difficulties in Creating Autonomy and Alignment Creating a performance culture of high alignment and high autonomy is not a one-time effort.

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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. We are involved in all sorts of things across the organization, across all sorts of spheres. Lead and influence practices in the organization that lead to greater operational experiences. It’s been a while.

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5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability

Honeycomb

Think of observability as the best gift organizations can give to developers (and, ultimately, to their bottom lines). Create an engineering culture that makes releasing new features routine According to the DORA metrics , elite DevOps teams deploy code multiple times a day.

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

However, there are some organizations that seem to have an easier time of it than others. Resilience is an activity they perform, rather than a property attributable to the organization. Change from within There are at least two more or less formal institutions that an organization can create to coordinate their observability efforts.

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How We Define SRE Work

Honeycomb

Lead and influence practices in the organization that lead to greater operational experiences. Adapt work so that people feel comfortable and confident running our systems, propagate good practices, and ensure we do these things sustainably. Take a long-term, holistic view of the system. Provide tools and assistance.

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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

In periods of both smooth sailing and rough waters, organizations depend on their leaders to steer the vessel. They asked us to provide guidance on enabling their leaders to steer their organization in the new direction. To be successful, organizations need to accept system and process failures as a means of learning.

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