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DevOps For Dummies
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DevOps For Dummies

by Emily Freeman
August 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
368 pages
9h 20m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 15

Empowering Engineers

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Scaling teams through DevOps

Bullet Motivating engineers

Bullet 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 different from the one that evolves ...

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