guiding principals (6)

• Focus on Value

  Everything you do must be valuable to shareholders (determining who is going to use the service and who the key stakeholders are helps)
• Start where you are

  Reuse resources whenever possible (instead of reinventing the wheel)
• Progress iteratively with feedback

  Don't do everything at once, baby steps. Learn from lots of feedback
• Collaborate and promote visibility


  Involve the right people at the right time and gather data to make the right decisions
• Think and work holistically

  Nothing is ever alone, think about the effect your work has on other components
• keep it simple and practical

  don't overcomplicate things, use least possible steps, outcome based thinking helps
• optimize and automate


  maximize the value of human work. automate only after optimization. apply devops