Things I tried as team lead: #1

[1] Lack of motivation within the team [2] Collaboration with external teams [3] US delivery management without supervision/support [4] Pre mortem goals Build architecture patterns for the cloud More automation around Infrastructure Provisioning Roll-out Well Architected framework for - AWS, Kubernetes Increased collaboration with other cloud teams Evolving Platform Team concept - Increased collaboration with Platform Tech Leads Building self-sufficient team [5] External Comms [6] Individual feedback [7] Support tasks [8] Exposure to team around - Support, Debugging, Prod Release [9] Rotation of responsiblities [10] PR's

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://every.to/superorganizers/managing-your-manager

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/if-were-all-so-busy-why-isnt-anything-getting-done

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1510285946285178887.html

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://swizec.com/blog/why-senior-engineers-get-nothing-done/

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://www.johnwhiles.com/posts/work.html

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://www.actitime.com/productivity/developer-productivity-tips

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://incident.io/blog/do-i-need-an-incident-debrief

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/performance-reviews-for-software-engineers/

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://dev.to/aws-heroes/architecture-devops-and-delivery-teams-need-to-think-differently-to-enable-serverless-12b1

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://blog.getambassador.io/is-platform-engineering-the-new-devops-or-sre-472ed97a1885

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://erik.wiffin.com/posts/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-11s

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://www.fastcompany.com/90719658/dont-quit-yet-this-is-how-to-make-your-current-job-fit-your-needs

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-habit-system-and-stay-motivated-as-a-developer/

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://developers.google.com/tech-writing

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://mfdela.medium.com/in-defence-of-tech-debts-in-software-engineering-209685ae0e27

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://blog.xendit.engineer/scaling-infrastructure-as-code-culture-in-xendit-6e84056ca617

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

Teams to be trained on the technology they will be working on
Teams to have at least one person who is an SME on topics e.g. Spark or have SME group for each topic/platform teams who will fill this need
Dedicated team/guild/architect analysing and setting up standards/recommendations to be followed
TPO’s working with business to have adequate timeline for iterative delivery to meet production standards
Tech Leads pushing back on TPO to get adequate timeline for iterative delivery to meet production standards
Not just trying to deliver fast to have nice metrics
Not forcing teams with tight deadlines and moving to another work item without considering the fact that the previous work item needs to be maintained by someone on a recurring basis, whether it’s fully productionized etc.

Also, things to be considered for cloud migration –

Someone has to manage the infrastructure in the cloud – moving to cloud doesn’t mean AWS will take care of everything
Adequate funding/training/skillset needs to be given so that resources can stabilize the platform and avoid major P1 incidents down the line in terms of
Having fine grained access controls in place
Auditing
Monitoring/Alerting
Well architected design and many more
Above shouldn’t require a justification – it needs to be quite obvious

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/great-employees-dont-complain-walk-away-ian-daley

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

https://serverlessfirst.com/emails/quantifying-the-cost-of-introducing-extra-moving-parts-into-your-serverless-architecture/

HarshadRanganathan commented 2 years ago

Aspect	Standalone Application	Capability on Platform
Architecture and Security Reviews	Get proposed arch and infrastructure patterns reviewed and approved by Security Team	Adopt the existing security patterns and go for security review in case of any major arch changes
Infrastructure	Build new environments from the ground up	Leverage existing and provision additional resources as necessary
Implementation Strategy (CI/CD, Code, Test, etc.)	Set it up as you see fit for team. Can adopt patterns from the existing teams as well.	Embrace the practices from the platform engineering team and add additional ones if necessary
Code Starter Kits:	Build one news and/or adopt and customize existing ones from other teams	Adopt existing ones from platform teams and customize components if necessary
Community Support	Team will get up to speed on the UHG ecosystem, procedures and controls but can get additional support as needed	Help on offer from Platform team. Can't expect Platform team to support us in every step of the way though!
UHC.OPEN/Code reusability	Isolated applications have limited opportunities for inner source. Right mindset can still get things done.	Platform Engineering opens up synergies for collaboration and reuse.
Technology Upgrades	No dependency on other teams to pilot things. Free to execute disruptive things as long as business is not impacted	Collaborate with Platform team on new implementations. Need to take the entire platform ecosystem into consideration for impact!
Cost	It depends on what we can reuse? Should also take time invested by team in learning and building everything from the ground up	Reusability plays a big role in cost numbers
Speed to Market	It depends on what we can reuse? Should also take time invested by team in learning and building everything from the ground up	Reusability plays a big role in speed to market
Enterprise Direction	Isolated applications are still in use, depends on the use case and timeline.	Platform Engineering is the new normal!