From the course: DevOps for Managers
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Building teams to create value
From the course: DevOps for Managers
Building teams to create value
- Let's talk team building. - Team building? All right. Trust fall! - No, no, no. - Oh. - We aren't talking about cheesy corporate activities or team outings here, but instead, how do we build our teams to create value? - [James] Conway's law states that organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure. - So if you want an organization to create value, then be careful how you organize and structure your teams. It will affect the things you build. I like how Michael Nygard puts it, "Team assignments are the first draft of your architecture." In fact, James, remember when we worked in web systems at National Instruments? We had this single DBA team that was siloed off from everyone. As a result, the systems were kind of pushed to a monolithic model with hundreds of apps needing to share the same database instance, whether that was really what they needed or not. - Hmm, that's a really good…
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