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Interaction modes of a developer experience team
As a developer experience team, we are often working in a platform mode but are constantly shifting into enabling mode for better results.
As a developer experience team, we are often working in a platform mode but are constantly shifting into enabling mode for better results.
Once you have decided, that a developer experience team would provide value to your organisation, the question is, how such a team should be set up, how it should be shaped, and how it should interact with other teams.
Great developer experience is directly linked to great developer productivity and an important factor for company success. This article starts to answer the question how great developer experience can be achieved.
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.
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.
Developer experience is a crucial topic which affects all development teams of a company. Therefore, it can be beneficial to introduce a team that has as their only mission to improve developer experience and productivity as these improvements multiply the impact of the other teams.
In this article I will share details about our last focus week and how it led to a breakthrough on a difficult topic.
Focus weeks are a tool for cracking difficult or complex topics as a team while fostering team collaboration and improving team culture.
If you do not test in production, your customers are the only ones, who do. While it sounds scary at first, testing in production is an important addition to pre-production quality assurance processes.
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