#Engineering-Excellence

Keeping the balance between deep work and being available for other teams can be especially challenging for platform- and enabling-teams. In this article I share the mechanisms that the developer experience team at BRYTER used to sucessfully maintain this balance.

Deep work and team work are not mutual exclusive but deeply interconneted. Collaborating as a team is the purest and most efficient form of deep work and can help your team to achieve peak performance.

Maintaining amble of focus and deep work time as an individual is a critical precondition of being part of a high-performing team. In this article I will give seven tips on how to get more deep work time throughout your week.

Extended periods of focus and concentration are essential to work at high performance achiving high productivity and quality of work.

Teams can have dysfunctional behaviours while everything looks good on first sight and there seems to be harmony. Here are 5 signs that there might be an issue that hinders the team to excel.

Investing in developer experience leads to improved productivity, better engineering practices, and increased stakeholder satisfaction. Positive developer experience starts with providing access to technology and tools, fostering collaboration, and streamlining workflows. Create a comfortable work environment, offer training opportunities, and invest in your team's growth to achieve a motivated and productive development team.

Developer productivity is a crucial topic for high-performing software organizations. It becomes even more important when times get tough and the budgets are small.

Is not to deploy on Fridays really that wise advice, that it used to be in the past? I would say "No"!

Long backlogs do not give you the overview and clarity you hope for. Instead they lead to false hopes and set you up for disappointment and wasted time.

We did it. Roughly two years after I joined BRYTER and one year after we started the developer experience team, we finally ended the era of manual deployments for roughly 15 teams.