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Human factors in development and operations.

IT systems and infrastructure operations are increasingly automated and developed using DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering principles. What are the human factors that make this possible and also challenging? This is a journey through some of the interesting numbers and laws from social science, systems theory and neurobiology that influence our roles inside technology.

- Amazon tries to create teams that can be fed from two pizzas. Why?
- Dunbar's number - there are limits on the number of stable relationships people are cognitively able to maintain at once. What does that mean for architectures?
- Conways Law - organisations design systems that mirror their communication flows. What does that mean for the kind of management structure we need?
- product developed by the loosely-coupled organization is significantly more modular than the product from the tightly-coupled organization
- The Inverse Conway Manoeuver recommends evolving your team and organisational structure to promote your desired architecture.
- Humans have two kinds of thinking - fast and slow. What does that mean for the kind of work we are exposed to in DevOps environments?
- Psychological safety, stress during incidents and context switching.

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Day: 2023-10-21
Start time: 10:30
Duration: 00:40
Room: HG E 1.1

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