Universal scalability law (org design)
Summary:
As organizations grow they become slower
📌 Org-design - 1/1
The two pizza rule
The spotify model
Team topologies
Team Topologies book is a recipe for learning Conway’s law
Team cognitive load
Team Cognitive Load Assessment
Based on some of the ideas in the book Team Topologies
Little's law (org design)
Summary
A relationship between how many things are work in progess and how long it takes any one item to get done.
work_in_progress = throughput * average_wait_time
If there are more things dependent on one shared resource then the wait time will increase.
Kingman's formula (org design)
Kingman’s approximation states are equal to
Devops team
Small Teams
0 DevOps is the ideal team size in small teams.
Prefer adopting the DevOps culture instead of a DevOps team.
Introduce training for infrastructure and networks for all developers.
Automate deployments and monitoring. Measure DORA metrics.
Deploy security policies as code and continuous scanning.
Betacodex
Amdhal's law
The overall performance improvement gained by optimizing a single part of a system is limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually used