Laura Maguire
where else to find them
github:mopie27
what they talk about
all 5 in the filters
where they keep going back
no series more than once — all 9 in the filters
on a stage with
- Courtney Nashonce
- John Allspawonce
- Lorin Hochsteinonce
all 4 in the filters
who talks about the same things
- John Allspaw23 talks
- Amy Newell4 talks
- Jessica Cregg5 talks
- Michael Toppa5 talks
- Laura Nolan19 talks
- Magda Miu8 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Why is this so hard: The cognitive and coordinative work of software development | Build Stuff 2025 | 2025-12-03 |
Argues that most software effort is hidden cognitive and coordinative work, backed by eight years of engineer studies plus forty years of cognitive systems… | ||
| Hard Choices, Tight Timelines: A Closer Look at Skip-level Tradeoff Decisions... | SREcon24 Americas | 2024-03-18 |
Analysis mines a public corpus of over 10,000 incident reports (the the VOID), then runs a vignette study with 27 participants using scenario probes and… | ||
| DevEmoOps: An emotionally integrated approach to the software development lifecycle | DevOpsDays NYC 2023 | 2023-06-06 |
Argues that software delivery omits engineers’ emotions and offers a concrete practice set from six years of field research: use resilience and cognitive… | ||
| An Organizational Response to Incidents: Designing for Smooth Coordination | SREcon23 Americas | 2023-03-21 |
Claim: shifting investment from a lone Incident Commander to the crowd of responders reduces mean time to resolution. Evidence: escalation principle and… | ||
| Move Fast and Learn Things: Principles of Cognition, Teaming... | SREcon22 Asia/Pacific | 2022-12-07 |
Compares two reviews of the same search outage and shows what changes matter: a quick templated writeup that takes 45 minutes vs one week yields two action… | ||
| Knowledge and Power: A Sociotechnical Systems Discussion on... | SREcon22 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2022-10-25 |
Series of four cross-disciplinary interviews claim that knowledge is partial, tacit and unevenly distributed, and that incidents are the best method to surface… | ||
| Workshop: Fundamentals of Joint Cognitive Systems | RubyConf 2021 | 2021-11-08 |
Argues that design details decide success: specifies joint cognitive systems as shared human–machine sensemaking, shows disk-alerts from a nagios default… | ||
| The Secret Lives of SREs - Controlling the Costs of Coordination across Remote | SREcon20 Americas | 2020-12-07 |
Researcher reports analysis of 62 cases across 4 organizations showing that costly coordination, not just technical failure, drives incident complexity; finds… | ||
| Mental models | DevOpsDays Vancouver 2019 | 2019-04-10 |
Two years of observational research of DevOps outage responses shows that expertise looks like admitting gaps not bluffing; teams that say “I didn't know it… | ||
| Coordination | DevOpsDays Vancouver 2019 | 2019-04-10 |
Empirical work at Ohio State maps how continuous deployment, tool reliance (Slack/chatops), and third‑party dependencies create constant, hard‑to‑anticipate… | ||
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