just looked at your slides how did you go about ch

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< eferro> just looked at your slides how did you go about changing culture metrics and communicate across silos

eferro · Answer

It has been a combination of things

eferro · Answer

On the one hand we were growing fast and I put questions checks about devops and product into the hiring process

eferro · Answer

When we created the Platform DevEx team I hire people with XP experience that work end2end and with product mindset

eferro · Answer

So this team led by example

Ralf Huuck · Answer

Yes makes sense It seems to me growing fast is a common denominator for many such initiatives

eferro · Answer

Previously I introduce blameless incident management process And I think that this was also an inflection point because at the end we start assigning the responsibility and ownership to each one of the teams

eferro · Answer

and the Platform area teams act as facilitators and enablers

eferro · Answer

very important I introduce ideas of Team Topologies to try to reorganize some of the teams assign ownership and make easier to grow with more end2end teams

Ralf Huuck · Answer

Nice

Ralf Huuck · Answer

Who in the org empowered you with this CTO

eferro · Answer

I lead the Platform Area SRE cloud infra developer experience corporate IT so is part of my job but for sure I was very aligned with the VP of Engineering we didn t have a CTO in the beginning and later also with the CTO

eferro · Answer

To create the Developer Experience I presented the proposal and business case to the VP of Engineering

Ralf Huuck · Answer

Cool Thanks

eferro · Answer

In fact for more mature teams I consider that we could wait more until creating this kind of teams but in out case I convinced to use these teams as leverage to improve our engineering culture improve testing deployment frequency production stability etc