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Create visible workflows to achieve well-architected software.
Understand and use meaningful data to measure success.
Integrate and automate quality, security, and compliance into daily work.
Understand the unique values and behaviors of a successful organization.
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Learn how making work visible, value stream management, and flow metrics can affect change in your organization.
Clarify team interactions for fast flow using simple sense-making approaches and tools.
Multiple award-winning CTO, researcher, and bestselling author Gene Kim hosts enterprise technology and business leaders.
In the first part of this two-part episode of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Dr. Ron Westrum, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University.
In the first episode of Season 2 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Admiral John Richardson, who served as Chief of Naval Operations for four years.
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DevOps best practices, case studies, organizational change, ways of working, and the latest thinking affecting business and technology leadership.
Is slowify a real word?
Could right fit help talent discover more meaning and satisfaction at work and help companies find lost productivity?
The values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, and practices of DevOps.
This post presents the four key metrics to measure software delivery performance.
A New Way of Improving DevOps/SRE Team Culture
This paper introduces the concept of “Low-Context DevOps” as a way to improve DevOps and SRE team culture. Author Thomas Limoncelli contrasts high-context cultures, where a lot of implicit background knowledge is required to operate effectively, with low-context cultures, where knowledge is made explicit and codified.
The paper argues that DevOps environments should strive to be low-context by minimizing the amount of tacit context required to be productive. This improves efficiency, reduces frustration, and increases morale.
Five key techniques are presented for achieving a low-context DevOps culture:
The author concludes by emphasizing that everyone can demonstrate leadership in moving their organizations toward low-context DevOps, even without explicit managerial authority. Small individual efforts to streamline, document, and share knowledge can drive significant cultural change.
This paper provides a deeper understanding and guidance for helping companies scale shared services for success.
Learn 5 techniques to create a low-context culture, from onboarding to system design.
Discover how to encourage best practices by making them the path of least resistance.
Drive change from any level - you don't need to be a manager to build a low-context culture.
Thomas Limoncelli is an internationally recognized author, speaker, system administrator, and DevOps advocate. He manages the SRE teams at Stack Overflow, Inc., and previously worked at Google, Bell Labs/Lucent, AT&T, and others. His books include Time Management for System Administrators (O’Reilly), The Practice of System and Network Administration (3rd edition), and The Practice of Cloud System Administration. In 2005, he received the USENIX SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award.
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