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Make three friends with one gift: Why developer experience is key to productivity, engineering excellence and stakeholder satisfaction.

February 11, 2023

Investing in developer experience leads to improved productivity, better engineering practices, and increased stakeholder satisfaction. Positive developer experience starts with providing access to technology and tools, fostering collaboration, and streamlining workflows. Create a comfortable work environment, offer training opportunities, and invest in your team’s growth to achieve a motivated and productive development team.

How to do Architecture Mapping Workshops in a Remote Setup

July 23, 2022

Mapping the architecture of the system that you are building in your company, is a worthwhile activity. With a bit of preparation you can run successful architecture workshops in a remote setup.

Is “Not deploying on Fridays” an outdated practice?

July 9, 2022

Is not to deploy on Fridays really that wise advice, that it used to be in the past? I would say “No”!

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.

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.

DRY – DO repeat yourself

April 30, 2022

DRY is one of the most misunderstood and abused principles. Copy more, reuse less!

Code ownership conflicts as a signal for structural mismatch

February 19, 2022

Code ownership on a team-level can not only help to identify the team that has knowledge in a certain area, it also can serve as a signal for a mismatch between architecture and team structures.

Code Ownership: Keeping the balance between structure and agility

February 12, 2022

Code ownership is an important topic when it comes to enabling your teams and allowing developers to improve the system while keeping the overhead of changes low. While today, most companies would (hopefully) agree, that individual code ownership is bad because it creates knowledge silos and makes the organisation dependent on individuals, code ownership still is essential on a larger scale.

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.

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