The Importance of Internal Documentation

In today’s episode, Rebecca talks with Nathen Harvey who leads the DORA group at Google Cloud. Nathen shares insights from the 10th annual DORA report, covering topics like the relationship between AI adoption and software stability, the importance of transformational leadership, and the role of quality documentation.

Find the transcript at: https://www.unblocked.fm/episodes/nathen-harvey-google-cloud/

Timestamps (0:00) Introductions (0:24) Nathen’s journey to DORA (3:21) The 10th annual DORA report (6:20) How DORA collects data on AI (11:52) Testing hypotheses with qualitative data (13:49) Communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders (20:04) The importance of transformational leadership (26:08) Qualifying productivity and value in developers (32:15) About quality documentation (35:45) Handling engineers who are afraid of DORA (38:55) Setting goals and continuous improvement

Follow Nathen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathen/

Follow Rebecca on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmurphey/

Links and mentions • DORA Accelerate State of DevOps report: https://cloud.google.com/resources/devops/state-of-devops