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Battling Dev Checklists

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  • 14 Lessons

Documentation helplessly out of date? Checklists for deploys getting you down? Run books giving you nightmares? Why do our must valuable operation processes always feel like such a mess and how do we make them better? This module explains how process drift happens, how to spot cognitive load issues in a process and when to automate your all your problems away!

Contents

Why Does Our Process Suck?

The Problem with Process
Intro to Drift
Cognitive Load
Automate All The Things! (Right?)
When to Automate
Bonus: Drifting into failure: theorising the dynamics of disaster incubation

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Scenario: Requesting a New Instance
Potential Improvements

Improving Process

How Safety Researchers See It
Three Indicators of Cognitive Load
Analysis: Cognitive Load on Instance Request
Prioritizing Optimizations
The Pathway to Better Process
Bonus: Shared Space - the alternative approach to calming traffic