Long term success only comes when individuals are given clear responsibilities, and held accountable. Here we share some of the fundamental organisational decisions that create accountable teams, which are setup for success.

Service Teams, as defined in the Spotify Model:

• Two short videos explain the basics of the Spotify model https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/03/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/ and https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/09/spotify-engineering-culture-part-2/
• The original PDF summary, now over 10 years old https://blog.crisp.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SpotifyScaling.pdf

You Build It, You Run It. Extending software engineering not just to software development, but also the skills needed to run it in production.

• Pulumi https://www.pulumi.com/ (Infrastructure as Code)
• Terraform https://www.terraform.io/ (Infrastructure as Code)
• Cloud Development Kit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/ (Infrastructure as Code)
• Site Reliability Engineering by Beyer, Jones, Petoff and Murphy https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/

• Accelerate by Forsgren, Humble, Kim | Recommending again, because it's so core to how high performing teams work, including T-shaped engineers.
• The Phoenix Project by Kim, Behr, Spafford | Fictional novel dramatising how a struggling US based business turns successful by making several people, process, and organisational changes. A pre-cursor to the next book...
• The DevOps Handbook by Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis | Organisational lessons for modern tech companies.
• Skin In The Game by Nassim Nicolas Taleb | A philosophical look at the nature of accountability.

• Cargo Cult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult | When organisations try to make culture changes they don't understand, or don't want to see succeed

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