#Engineering-Excellence

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.

Companies might fall into the trap to believe that developer experience is a nice-to-have luxury rather than a necessity. However, this is not the case. High developer productivity results from a great developer experience and thus, the companies' success ultimately relies on this.

Developer experience is a crucial topic which affects all development teams of a company. Therefore, it can be beneficial to introduce a team that has as their only mission to improve developer experience and productivity as these improvements multiply the impact of the other teams.

Whether a team works synchronous or asynchronous is not determined by whether it is co-located or not. Both teams have to make an effort, if they want their work to be synchronous.

Objectives and key results are a great tool for collaborative goal-setting and for aligned on a company-wide direction. Problems start, when teams start to rely on other teams OKRs to be finished in time.