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Episode 388: The Death of DevOps, with Andrew Clay Shafer

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What Trist Shows Is That Self Organizing Autonomous Teams Have Better Morale and Better Safety

A lot of people are misusing social technical systems. It was studying coal miners in London so there's this Tavistock Institute and the sky Trist, they read all these papers. The story is that if you give the local team with the understanding of that particular vein And the flow of the coal that they need or can produce that they have Better morale that they have higher productivity and they have better safety. This goes back to like the 1950s But then over time it gets buried because everyone's like oh, that's for coal mining Now now it's like we're doing a oil and like you can see it was right back to like autocrats and command and control.

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