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

Altexsoft

We hope the information will be useful for DevOps specialists, product managers, CTOs, and other executives seeking ways to improve the reliability of their systems without victimizing the speed of innovations. The primary focus of SRE is system reliability which is considered the most fundamental feature of any product.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

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. Get Management Buy-In. If you want to be Agile, you need management support. The VP liked what I had to say. Counterintuively. probably not.

Agile 103
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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. If not, you can hire consultants. Get Management Buy-In. Agile requires management support.

Agile 94
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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

But this isnt a talk about measuring productivity. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. turn right] How are you measuring productivity? We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort.