Conference: Jun 26-28, 2017
Workshops: Jun 29-30, 2017
Presentation: Removing Friction In the Developer Experience
Abstract
Our ability to be productive engineers can be distilled to the sum of two forces: things that motivate us, and -things that hold us back. While the levers of autonomy, mastery and purpose and their effect on motivation are well popularised, engineering organisations are often held back by different forms of friction. We’ll discuss how we’ve applied a potent blend of microservice / serverless architectures, continuous deployment, and cloud technology to make it easy to push code swiftly, safely and frequently and operate it reliably in production . And, we’ll discuss the organisational tools like team self-selection, team ingredients model, voluntary adoption, internal startups that allow us to decentralise and decouple high-performing teams.
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Interview
Adrian: Share the learnings of rolling out startup-style dev-ex in a large, corporate engineering organisation.
Adrian: Engineers, team leads, CTOs.
- Autonomy, mastery and purpose are necessary but sufficient for great devex. You need to ruthlessly identify and remove the processes and architectures that stop you from getting change swiftly, safely and frequently to production.
- Stop wasting your time in the 'theatre' of staging and QA environments. Adopt techniques that allow you to test safely in production.
- Adopt devops principals so that your engineers own their code in production.
Adrian: It's hard to change an existing architecture or organisation: change often meets resistance and that resistance can be overwhelming. Instead of trying to boil the ocean, why not simply draw a line around the existing system and practices of the organisation and say 'okay, everything outside this box is new, and in this new space we're going to think and act differently'. If you can show that these new techniques work, then folk within the box will want to adopt them and you'll get a natural shift to better devex.
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