Doing. Even if you read it in a book or someone shows it to you, practicing it will help solidify it in your mind. You can’t get muscle memory from a book.
We do regular book studies. We have internal Teaching Thursdays where associates teach associates. Of course DOES17 :-) Following leaders on social media.
We have loads of architects in the DevOps community. I think Gene said it was the second most popular title. So what's the most effective role/setup of the architecture capability as your scaling DevOps in an enterprise?
Big enterprise still need enterprise architecture. We have a team and a governance board, but the architects area also matrixed to delivery teams too - they are not astronaut architects in the sky, they are making things along side teams
We have been experimenting with having architects be hands-on creators. They create reference architectures, reusable services, and curate Github projects that are shared between teams
Provide a visible lead time measure that shows how work flows through a team's value stream. We have an integrated pipeline that allows workflow to be visible from customer concept through deployment.
sometimes data is available (because is actually shared) but it's not known that it is, either because it's difficult to discover when you need it, or because the sharing itself wasn't shared.