Table of Contents
• Why is Organization Important in SRE?
• Soft Skills required to implement SRE
• SRE Organization Design
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Why is Organization Important in
SRE?
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Business metrics Include Engineering metrics 1
1 Mohit Suley and Kurt Andersen, Understanding Business Metrics Can Make You a Better SRE, 2019, SREcon
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SRE collaborate a lot!!
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Culture beats strategy
every time
— Chapter 31 - Communication and
Collaboration in SRE
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Soft Skills required to
implement SRE
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Why are soft skills so important?
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Chapter 31 -
Communication and
Collaboration in SRE
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“A good SRE has an ability to
critically examine a system and use
that to guide them when asking
questions of the system.”
— Jamie Wilkinson, SRE at Google
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Top 5 Soft Skills in SRE3
1. Problem Solving
2. Teamwork
3. Composure underpressure
4. Written communication
5. Verbal communicaiton
3 Catchpoint, 2018 SRE report
it's difficult to find
someone who's lucky
enough to only have
useful, effective
meetings. This is
equally true for SRE.
— Chapter 31 - Communication and
Collaboration in SRE