Team Guides for Software
The Team Guide series takes a team-first approach to software systems with the aim of empowering whole teams to build and operate software systems more effectively.
The Team Guides are written and curated by experienced practitioners and emphasise the need for collaboration and learning, with the team at the centre.
Written by practitioners
eBook and print
Concise and easy to read
By Matthew Skelton, Alex Moore, and Rob Thatcher
July 2019
ISBN 978-1-912058-00-6
Learn how a focus on software operability helps to increase system reliability, reduce problems in Production, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
This guide provides a set of hands-on practices based on real-world, tried-and-tested experience across multiple organizations for teams to adopt (and adapt) in order to promote and enhance software operability.
By Mattia Battiston and Chris Young
May 2021
ISBN 978-1-912058-00-6
Learn how metrics can help your software team answer questions like “How fast are we going? What should we do next? Where’s the bottleneck?” Deliver software more effectively with greater certainty.
By Ash Winter and Rob Meaney
November 2021
ISBN 978-1-912058-67-9
Learn practical insights on how testability can help bring teams together to observe, control and understand the systems they build. Enabling them to better meet customer needs, achieve a transparent level of quality and predictability of delivery.
By Manuel Pais and Chris O’Dell
Date: TBC
ISBN 978-1-912058-59-4
Strong build & release engineering capabilities are key to rapid and reliable delivery of modern software systems. Learn how software releasability means not only being able to deploy faster, but also being able to quickly recover from disaster and adapt to changing technical and business challenges.
