Process

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Learnings from 'Observability in action'

A snapshot of the series

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3 mins

18 May 2022 Article

What is toil and why is it damaging your engineering org?

Gregory Chase

7 mins

17 May 2022 Article

How to run a great retrospective

Nickolas Means

10 mins

04 May 2022 Article

Three steps for managing toil as you scale

Adam Shepard

16 mins

19 Apr 2022 Article

Why engineering teams should stop counting Agile story points

Kevin Dallaire

6 mins

30 Mar 2022 Article

Using SLOs to align business and engineering goals

Irving Popovetsky

8 mins

28 Mar 2022 Article

Setting a vision, mission, and strategy for your team

Addy Osmani

9 mins

02 Mar 2022 Article

Five mistakes to avoid when setting OKRs for your team

Dan Persa

11 mins

02 Mar 2022 Article

Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation

Jeremy Goldsmith

16 mins

17 Feb 2022 Article

Running your first internal hackathon

Anthony Mayer

11 mins

10 Feb 2022 Article

Balancing delivery speed with engineering health

Claire Tran

13 mins

03 Feb 2022 Article

Getting your engineers engaged with OKRs

Rafael Esquiçato

9 mins

02 Feb 2022 Article

Why open source projects should embrace operational transparency

Julia Ferraioli

8 mins

18 Jan 2022 Article

Getting big changes implemented at the staff+ level

Zach Millman

10 mins

17 Jan 2022 Article

Five steps for making data-informed decisions

Caitlin Hudon

8 mins

22 Dec 2021 Article

How Netflix, Teachers Pay Teachers, Honeycomb, and more used observability in 2021

Lesley Cordero

Kristie Howard

+2 more

15 mins

29 Nov 2021 Article

A vision for a social model of open source

Julia Ferraioli

7 mins

15 Nov 2021 Article

An introduction to Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Chinmay Gaikwad

10 mins

12 Nov 2021 Article

Communicating engineering priorities to your CEO

Ariel Illouz

10 mins

10 Nov 2021 Article

An introduction to issue management

Chinmay Gaikwad

13 mins

28 Oct 2021 Article

Introducing OKRs to your team: From general alignment to measurable results

Daiany Palacios

12 mins

14 Oct 2021 Article

Using metrics to communicate the state of your engineering org

Bryan Helmkamp

Pat Kua

+1 more

6 mins

11 Oct 2021 Article

Creating open source projects for your community

Kevin Stewart

8 mins

22 Sep 2021 Article

How managers can use metrics to improve planning and run better standups

Khan Smith

Pat Kua

+1 more

8 mins

30 Jun 2021 Article

Learnings from 'Weighing up the pros and cons of build vs. buy'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

5 mins

11 Jun 2021 Article

140,000 lines of code: why we built our own licensing system

Tobias Günther

5 mins

19 May 2021 Article

Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision

Dawn Parzych

Douglas Ferguson

+1 more

10 mins

28 Apr 2021 Article

Debugging engineering teams: Groundhog Day

Camille Fournier

6 mins

20 Apr 2021 Article

Demystifying the software engineering test pyramid

Thayse Onofrio

Marilene Lourenço

12 mins

15 Apr 2021 Article

To build, or to buy, that is the question

Wouter Van Geluwe

7 mins

14 Apr 2021 Article

Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process

Cate Huston

5 mins

30 Mar 2021 Article

The art of self-organizing engineering teams

Tom Sommer

9 mins

29 Mar 2021 Article

How to run a great software incident post-mortem

Katie Wilde

12 mins

24 Mar 2021 Article

Software platforms: DIY vs. buying it

Dawn Parzych

7 mins

18 Mar 2021 Article

Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot

Najla Elmachtoub

9 mins

18 Feb 2021 Article

What is observability and why should you care?

Ted Young

6 mins

15 Feb 2021 Article

Estimating your way to success

Rod Begbie

5 mins

23 Nov 2020 Article

How to measure and improve success in your engineering team

Eric Rabinovich

15 mins

10 Nov 2020 Article

Observability at scale

Ramez Hanna

5 mins

29 Oct 2020 Article

Trusting the instincts of engineers to foster a culture of innovation

Edoardo Turelli

8 mins

28 Oct 2020 Article

How to avoid alert fatigue

Serhat Can

6 mins

22 Oct 2020 Article

Using metrics to remove bottlenecks and support your team

Hillary Nussbaum

4 mins

21 Oct 2020 Article

Adopting an experimentation philosophy

Justina Nguyen

5 mins

13 Oct 2020 Article

Tell better stories with observability

Elizabeth Carretto

6 mins

12 Oct 2020 Article

How to develop engineering metrics with people, process, and tools in mind

Dalia Havens

8 mins

07 Oct 2020 Article

Building stronger teams with AB testing

Jason van der Merwe

7 mins

24 Sep 2020 Article

Engineering with empathy

Jossie Haines

6 mins

07 Oct 2020 Article

Preventing process deadlock

Victor Vu

7 mins

10 Aug 2020 Article

Finding your groove: how to build your team’s operational cadence

Daniel Pupius

8 mins

06 Dec 2020 Video

How to affect change without losing your job

Duretti Hirpa

23 mins

06 Dec 2019 Video

Strategies for making impossible decisions

Scott Triglia

26 mins

08 Nov 2019 Video

Solutions for creating and managing inclusive projects

Yvette Pegues

26 mins

30 Apr 2019 Video

How to lead your engineering team through a period of change

Yvette Pasqua

10 mins

22 Jan 2021 Article

Accentuate the negative: making the non-perfect decision

Tanya Reilly

6 mins

02 Jun 2021 Article

Reliability and more: preventing a crisis in engineering production

Ricardo Aravena

5 mins

09 Jun 2021 Article

Utilizing invisible forces to make better decisions in software design

Murat Derya Ozen

8 mins

16 Jun 2021 Article

Addressing the challenges of build vs. buy

Dawn Parzych

Douglas Ferguson

+1 more

12 mins

17 Jun 2021 Article

Guiding principles for build vs. buy decisions

Aaron Suggs

6 mins

01 Jul 2021 Article

Preventing burnout while shipping faster

Junade Ali

5 mins

28 Jul 2021 Article

How to break out of the thread of doom

Tanya Reilly

7 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

The culture of process

Cate Huston

9 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

Developing a product-led innovation strategy for a software company

Isabel Nyo

16 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

How Netlify, Splice, Code Climate, and more use engineering metrics

Cody Lee

Leslie Cohn-Wein

+2 more

13 mins

24 Aug 2021 Article

The difficulties of observability

Alex Hidalgo

8 mins

26 Aug 2021 Article

Thoughts on kickstarting observability

Thom Duran

15 mins

11 May 2022 Article

Four best practices for leveraging data responsibly

Hillary Nussbaum

6 mins

11 Apr 2022 Article

How to turn an engineering incident into an opportunity

Cory Watson

12 mins

02 Mar 2022 Article

Who is responsible for open source security?

Chetan Conikee

9 mins

23 Feb 2022 Article

How open source maintainers ensure projects are safe, friendly, and thriving

Emma Burstow

12 mins

07 Feb 2022 Article

How to drive decisions as an engineering leader

Sarah Drasner

10 mins

01 Feb 2022 Article

Do successful products prioritize familiarity over uniqueness?

Cassidy Williams

5 mins

10 Jan 2022 Article

How to cultivate a great engineering process

Nickolas Means

11 mins

19 Nov 2021 Article

Delegation is a superpower

Caitlin Hudon

8 mins

11 Nov 2021 Article

Learnings from ‘The engineering leader’s guide to data-driven leadership’

Ella Morrish

9 mins

27 Oct 2021 Article

The rise of OpenTelemetry

Phillip Carter

10 mins

30 Sep 2021 Article

Engineering metrics at every level: An engineering director’s guide

Pat Kua

James McGill

+1 more

7 mins

15 Jun 2021 Article

The search for the best solution: third party or open source?

Tal Joffe

8 mins

05 May 2021 Article

The long tail of product features

Arjen de Ruiter

7 mins

15 Apr 2021 Article

Don’t cross the Rubicon: engineering practices you don’t want to delay

Manasi Kulkarni

11 mins

12 Apr 2021 Article

Learnings from 'Deconstructing engineering velocity'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

3 mins

26 Mar 2021 Article

Mapping the immovable objects in engineering projects

Tanya Reilly

7 mins

10 Mar 2021 Article

A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector

Ted Young

3 mins

10 Feb 2021 Article

Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’

Cate Huston

7 mins

09 Nov 2020 Article

The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team

Hillary Nussbaum

3 mins

27 Oct 2020 Article

Career ladders aren't enough – you need a thoughtful promotion process, too

Sarah Milstein

9 mins

14 Oct 2020 Article

How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product's stage

Santiago Esteva

12 mins

07 Oct 2020 Article

Preventing process deadlock

Victor Vu

7 mins

26 Aug 2020 Article

Hypothesis-driven development

Rod Begbie

7 mins

10 Aug 2020 Article

Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams

Smruti Patel

14 mins

30 Apr 2019 Video

Using observability to detangle and understand production

Liz Fong-Jones

24 mins

27 Aug 2020 Article

A resignation can be an opportunity

Kevin Goldsmith

4 mins

08 Jun 2021 Article

Build vs. buy: know what you need, and know what you want

Chris Powell

7 mins

17 Jun 2021 Article

How to make a build vs. buy decision for a new software solution

Michael Ng

6 mins

26 Jul 2021 Article

Every decision creates a policy

Kevin Goldsmith

5 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

Outages are coming for you

Matthew Hawthorne

10 mins

19 Aug 2021 Article

How to foster data-driven tech leadership

Carlos Coelho

7 mins

04 Apr 2022 Article

Four ways to empower your team through data

Hillary Nussbaum

5 mins

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