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Oriented) Bureaucratic (Rule-Oriented) Generative (Performance-Oriented) Low cooperation Modest cooperation High cooperation Messengers “shot” Messengers neglected Messengers trained Responsibilities shirked Narrow responsibilities Risks are shared Bridging discouraged Bridging tolerated Bridging encouraged Failure leads to scapegoating Failure leads to justice Failure leads to inquiry Novelty crushed Novelty leads to problems Novelty implemented
asking them to rate how strongly they agree or disagree with a statement. When people answer
culture is valid and reliable from a statistical point of view.
indicator of the level of organizational culture that prioritizes trust and collaboration in the team—
organizations with a generative culture,
people collaborate more effectively
higher level ...
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put aside their personal issues
The mission is primary. And third,
‘level playing field,’ in which hierarchy plays less o...
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“ensure fairness by applying rules to administrative behavior.
where following the rules is considered more important than achieving the mission—
WHAT DOES WESTRUM ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE PREDICT?
good culture requires trust and cooperation between people across the organization,
better organizational culture can indicate higher quality decision-making. In
decisions are more easily reversed
cultural norms are likely to do a better job with their people,
metrics: lead time, release frequency, time to restore service, and change fail rate.
software delivery performance it is defined using only the combination of those three metrics.
common factors among its best-performing
“who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions
team dynamics.
to choke”: Investigations aim to find the person
start of the investigation.
improve information flow so that people have better or more timely information,
change culture is not to first change how people think, but instead to start by changing how people behave—what they do”
Extreme Programming (XP) was one of the most popular Agile frameworks.
test-driven development and continuous integration.
treated technical practices as secondary compared to the management and team practices that
technical practices
team burnout and deployment pain.
Continuous delivery is a set of capabilities that enable
safely, quickly, and sustainably.
“Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place”
where we can detect any issues quickly,
Work in small batches.
plan work in big chunks—
Computers perform repetitive tasks; people solve problems.
invest in simplifying and automating this work.
improving the design of our systems and processes in response to feedback.
Relentlessly pursue continuous imp...
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development focuses on throughput, testing on quality, and operations on stability.
the state of these system-level outcomes transparent,
measurable, achievable, time-bound goals for these outcomes,
Comprehensive configuration management. It
This still leaves room for manual approvals—but once approved, all changes should be applied automatically.
keep branches short-lived
should be run against every commit to version control to give developers fast feedback on their changes.
high-quality software gets delivered to users more frequently and more reliably.
THE IMPACT OF CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
