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Managing a Team in Moments of Crisis by Using the DevOps Culture

Written by Adam Stempniak | Feb 1, 2022 6:04:58 AM

If you’ve ever experienced dreaded downtime, you certainly don’t want to find yourself in that situation again. If you haven’t, we’re pretty sure you’re not looking forward to experiencing it.

However, such crises may be inevitable, and when they do occur, you may need your team to work around their schedule to fix things while pacifying clients whose businesses may be affected by the downtime.

As a tech leader, getting your team to resolve the issue quickly will require lots of communication and collaboration in a tense atmosphere. This may prove to be a struggle if you don’t have established systems and patterns for collaborating and communicating within your team and handling crises.

If you’re wondering what to do to help your team manage crises more effectively, you’re in luck. We recently hung out with Junior Godoi, Software Engineering Manager at Scurri, on our Tech Leaders Hub series.

Junior shared feasible and practical steps for effectively communicating and collaborating with your team to ensure quick recovery during a crisis by implementing the DevOps culture.

If you’d like to be better prepared to handle the next crisis you encounter in your team or organization, keep reading to learn how you can do this.