Building a Culture of Reliability
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Conducts over 40 interviews with engineers worldwide, codes responses in MAXQDA, and runs three survey waves with cognitive testing to track reliability sentiment. Finds a perception gap: reliability recognition actually rises and correlates with higher performance ratings, yet common barriers are competing priorities, fragile dependencies, system complexity, and poor tooling. Builds a reliability measurement program to set SLOs and a reliability maturity model to guide zero-to-one and scaling work; early signals show modest cultural shift but continued measurement is required.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:51Global Health Security Index
- 1:49Why the US was ranked 1
- 4:40The absence of a pandemic
- 5:31Moving fast with stable infrastructure
- 6:37Metas Reliability Engineering
- 7:27Crisis Complacency
- 8:09Human Risk Assessment
- 8:34Culture
- 9:51Interviews
- 11:41Metadata
- 13:33Cognitive Testing
- 14:35Survey Findings
- 15:27Reliability Recognition
- 17:08Reliability Measurement
- 18:35Conclusion
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