Scratch the Backlog – There is a better way to plan your work
June 25, 2022
Long backlogs do not give you the overview and clarity you hope for. Instead they lead to false hopes and set you up for disappointment and wasted time.
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From two manual monolithic deployments a week to 15+ automated deployments a day
June 11, 2022
We did it. Roughly two years after I joined BRYTER and one year after we started the developer experience team, we finally ended the era of manual deployments for roughly 15 teams.
What Developer Experience Engineers can learn from User Experience Engineers
May 28, 2022
Developer experience engineering is a pretty new discipline. However, there are numerous parallels to user experience engineering. Therefore, DX engineers can learn from the teachings of UX engineering.
Why companies should care about great developer experience
March 5, 2022
Companies might fall into the trap to believe that developer experience is a nice-to-have luxury rather than a necessity. However, this is not the case. High developer productivity results from a great developer experience and thus, the companies’ success ultimately relies on this.
Should we focus on developer experience or developer productivity?
February 26, 2022
When talking about developer experience, there are a couple of other names thrown into the conversation that all kind-of mean the same, but IMHO have a slightly different touch / focus and can be perceived quite differently.
Remote can be synchronous, too!
January 29, 2022
Whether a team works synchronous or asynchronous is not determined by whether it is co-located or not. Both teams have to make an effort, if they want their work to be synchronous.
OKRs are NOT guaranteed deliveries
January 22, 2022
Objectives and key results are a great tool for collaborative goal-setting and for aligned on a company-wide direction. Problems start, when teams start to rely on other teams OKRs to be finished in time.
Blameless Post-Mortems: Incidents are a learning opportunity
January 15, 2022
Blameless post-mortems are an effective tool to facilitate learning from failures, to share knowledge and to significantly improve the entire system, including software, infrastructure, and processes.
Bonuses are bad – change my mind
January 8, 2022
Bonuses shift an employee’s interest from the long-term success of the company to the achievement of a short-term goal. By introducing bonuses, you are incentivising the achievement of goals, that should not need any incentives, if they were the right goals to begin with.
