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Improving Developer Experience: Starting with Psychological Safety, Team Stability, and Work-Life Balance

August 12, 2023

Improving Developer Experience is pivotal for fostering creativity and driving innovation. Rooted in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, this article delves into the essentials: psychological safety, where trust and open communication reign; team stability, ensuring productivity amidst consistent team dynamics; and work-life balance, prioritizing personal well-being alongside work responsibilities. Prioritize these, and witness enhanced performance, engagement, and overall organizational success.

11 Tips to Prevent Survey Fatigue in Your Organization

July 29, 2023

This article offers 11 practical tips to combat survey fatigue, a common issue when gathering developer experience insights. Key strategies include clarifying survey purpose, simplifying content, making it engaging, reducing frequency, timing it well, and ensuring optional anonymity. These tactics aim to enhance participation, improve the quality of responses, and ultimately, derive more accurate data to enhance the developer experience within an organization. Be mindful of incentivizing, as it may affect the sincerity of responses. These strategies are designed to provide a more efficient and effective surveying approach.

Default-to-Open: A Principle for High-Performance Organizations

April 22, 2023

High-performing Organizations make sure that everybody has the information they need to do their job with alignment, autonomy and excellence. Default-to-open can help to ensure this.

The Inverse Conway Manoeuvre in Existing Systems – It does not work!

April 15, 2023

The Inverse Conway Manoeuvre is unlikely to work in existing sociotechnical systems of a certain size and stability. It is even less likely to work in remote companies and distributed teams.

Deep Work and Collaboration in Platform- and Enabling-Teams

April 1, 2023

Keeping the balance between deep work and being available for other teams can be especially challenging for platform- and enabling-teams. In this article I share the mechanisms that the developer experience team at BRYTER used to sucessfully maintain this balance.

Deep Work is a Team Effort

March 25, 2023

Deep work and team work are not mutual exclusive but deeply interconneted. Collaborating as a team is the purest and most efficient form of deep work and can help your team to achieve peak performance.

7 Tips for more Deep Work for Individuals

March 18, 2023

Maintaining amble of focus and deep work time as an individual is a critical precondition of being part of a high-performing team. In this article I will give seven tips on how to get more deep work time throughout your week.

The Value of Deep Work for Peak Performance

March 11, 2023

Extended periods of focus and concentration are essential to work at high performance achiving high productivity and quality of work.

Happy without hierarchies: Who cares for employee happiness if there are no hierarchies?

March 4, 2023

In traditional organisations, people leads are often made accountable for happy and striving employees. So what do you do when you don’t have hierarchies? In short, self-leadership and supportive people (peers, buddies, and coaches) are the way to go.

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