Tech squad¶

Note

The «tech squad» are the techies, the ones which are actually working 😁

Stakeholder babel fish¶

The «stakeholder babel fish» is the «technical business analyst», and has the following responsibilities:

🧠 Technical advisor

Support technical stakeholders with clarity, challenge ideas, and help them make technical decisions.
🤝 Stakeholder management

Keep stakeholders in the loop — connect people, communicate proactively, and report transparently.
🔀 Translate

Translate between business, and IT stakeholders, align expectations, and turn fuzzy ideas into real specs.
🧬 Processes & methodology

Improve collaboration, set up workflows, set goals, and bring structure into chaos.
✅ Quality gates

Introduce, and maintain quality gates to spot issues before they become a problem.

The «automation ninja» is the «DevOps engineer», and has the following responsibilities:

🔧 Systems engineering

Automate, and maintain the IT infrastructure to keep our services running smoothly.
⚙️️ Config management

Maintain and improve our Ansible & GitLab CI-based environment.
🔄 CI/CD pipelines

Configure, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines, to automatically deploy infrastructure changes.
🔬 Testing & QA

Ensure what we ship works, and matches our coding guidelines, and quality standards.
📈 Observability

Set up logging, metrics, and dashboards, so issues surface before they become incidents.

The «coding samurai» is the «developer», and has the following responsibilities:

💻 Development

Develop digital solutions, and write maintainable code, aligned with our standards.
🦾 AI

Leverage our AI-based solutions to automate the boring stuff, and let the team focus on what matters.
👀 Code reviews

Review the AI & your peers’ code, share feedback, and uphold our coding guidelines.
🔬 Testing & QA

Ensure what we ship works, and matches our coding guidelines, and quality standards.
🔄 CI/CD pipelines

Configure, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines, to automatically build, test, and deploy changes.