Chapter 15
Empowering Engineers
IN THIS CHAPTER
Scaling teams through DevOps
Motivating engineers
Creating self-motivating teams
Engineers are the engine of any tech business; they power the entire operation. Taking care of your engineers is vital to their continued health, happiness, and productivity. It behooves businesses to understand the motivations of engineers and create environments in which they can thrive. Happy engineers product better software, faster. It’s just that simple.
This chapter focuses on scaling an engineering team through DevOps, motivating engineers to produce their best work, enabling your engineering team to allow engineers of diverse backgrounds to work collaboratively, and measuring your success.
Scaling Engineering Teams with DevOps
Growing your teams is one of the hardest challenges of tech — one DevOps attempts to assuage. I believe the greatest challenges in tech aren’t technical, they’re sociotechnical. Our systems have evolved beyond our machines. The challenges we face now have more to do with human behavior than with bits and bytes.
The type of business formed at the beginning stage of a startup is radically ...
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