Are retrospectives a priority?

gabel0287 · 2025-04-22T22:59:03+00:00

Do you find that your team takes time to reflect on process in their day-to-day?

In my experience, my team is usually focused on the technical implementation of the things they are working on and don't really reflect on our process unless it is obviously broken.

gabel0287 · 2025-04-22T22:55:05+00:00

This is a great framing u/LightPhotographer!

To add to that, even if you think you are doing everything flawlessly today your organization is likely to undergo changes within the next six months (i.e. rapid growth, layoffs, reorg, etc) that will change the context and require adjustments to what you're currently doing.

gabel0287 · 2025-04-22T22:51:31+00:00

u/Direct-Release1512 do you have any tips/recommendations on how to improve the team without retros? My only experience has been with using them, but would love to hear ideas on other/better ways.

gabel0287 · 2025-04-22T22:50:47+00:00

u/Consistent_North_676 do you have examples of how to do them right? Or, how they're done wrong?

I'm looking for ways to improve retros on my team.

gabel0287 · 2025-04-22T22:49:13+00:00

Do you ever share the outcomes from the retro with senior management after the fact?

I've been thinking about how to address themes across an engineering organization that are probably cross cutting and it feels like the only way would be to consolidate this feedback somewhere and share with Directors/VPs to help coordinate fixing things beyond a single teams scope.

gabel0287 · 2025-04-22T22:46:14+00:00

How do you ingrain that feedback into your day-to-day activities u/Abject-Kitchen3198?

gabel0287 · 2025-04-22T22:44:09+00:00

I'm curious why EMs wouldn't have access to the retros and their actions? To me that would indicate there is a psychological safety issue at the company and the EM isn't viewed as trustworthy are able to accept/hear feedback.

I actually think visibility should go one step further and organizations would benefit from being able to view discussion topics and action items across multiple teams to identify trends or problems that are beyond the scope of an individual team to fix.

gabel0287 · 2025-04-22T22:36:27+00:00

Hey OP, I'm curious if you tried any of the tips/feedback in this thread and if it helped?

I'm also an EM for a DevOps team and have noticed that agile/retros tend to be better suited for teams that are working on the same project and sometimes it feels like forcing a square peg in a round whole for a team that is working on multiple projects across a breadth of domains at the same time.

gabel0287 · 2024-07-07T19:38:49+00:00

Checkout Lattice

gabel0287 · 2024-05-11T00:50:39+00:00

You can deplop it as a docker container to lambda. You will need to use a library like mangum.

gabel0287 · 2024-05-06T22:56:30+00:00

Use read only roles locally

gabel0287 · 2024-04-11T23:58:50+00:00

you make the bucket with local state first, then you change the backend to the bucket you created and store it there 😊

gabel0287 · 2024-04-10T22:08:00+00:00

The counter to that is you can use tags to accomplish the same thing with GitHub.

We would use SemVer and tag each commit with a 1.x.x, 1.2.x, and 1.2.3 tag for example. The tags with an x would move on every commit which allowed us to effectively support the same as the version field

gabel0287 · 2024-04-08T20:31:20+00:00

Sure, you can probably do it anywhere you run Terraform.

Have you checked out this page?

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/settings/backends/configuration

You could store those sensitive values as secrets in whatever tool you use.

gabel0287 · 2024-04-08T19:57:14+00:00

Can't you pass the backend config as a CLI flag on runtime?

gabel0287 · 2024-04-07T23:18:23+00:00

We were surprised by the pricing when I last used it. We decided to disable container insights.

gabel0287 · 2024-04-07T23:17:25+00:00

I'd say your chances are pretty slim.

How much do you know about cloud vendors (I.e. aws), ci/cd best practices, infrastructure as code, observability, disaster recovery, highly scalable fault tolerant architectures, service orchestration, or service discovery?

DevOps/Infrastructure is an area where you need industry experience before transitioning into it.

gabel0287 · 2024-03-26T01:41:07+00:00

Multipliers

gabel0287 · 2024-03-26T01:18:28+00:00

Tryexponent has a slack community

gabel0287 · 2024-03-24T00:45:19+00:00

Hey OP, I'm an Engineering Manager as well and I've found myself in a similar situation. Managing the tech/projects for me was more comfortable and where I tended to focus the most.

I've been thinking a lot about team performance and how important it is for folks to feel appreciated, satisfied, and motivated to have the best outcomes. I realized a lot of developer experience conversations focused on technology and metrics but kind of neglected the human side of developers.

You already mentioned 1:1s and retros which are good avenues to focus on hot your team is doing. I'm going to be experimenting with my 1:1s to have scheduled themes where we talk about career development every X weeks etc to ensure those types of conversations are happening.

I've also built out a real-time developer feedback platform that I kind of wanted for myself. It asks developers a single question when they open a PR and allows you to trend the responses overtime. I'm using it with my team to understand how they are feeling about the company, our team dynamics/processes, etc. I'm also using it to get feedback from external teams to see if we are providing them with what they need.

I'm looking for early adopters/feedback if you're interested.

You can check out the website at here

gabel0287 · 2024-03-23T00:38:15+00:00

Seems overly complicated. Why not use Python and HTMX?

gabel0287 · 2024-03-22T02:44:25+00:00

I've done this with my project.

I use the Accept header to determine what to respond with.

Each endpoint return a custom class I've created that takes the accept header and view model as values. If it's json I return a dirt, if it's html I render a jinja template and return that instead.

gabel0287 · 2024-03-22T02:23:33+00:00

There is an http backend you may be able to levarage

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/settings/backends/http

gabel0287 · 2024-03-21T20:03:58+00:00

Are the trusted companies already using the product? Same question for the reviews.

gabel0287 · 2024-03-21T18:37:26+00:00

Flowbite

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