https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/Recent content on Pedro Del GallegoHugo -- gohugo.ioen-us2023 Pedro Del GallegoWed, 01 Feb 2023 11:00:57 -0500https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/untangling-dependencies-at-amazon/Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:00:57 -0500https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/untangling-dependencies-at-amazon/As companies scale, they slow down. Teams spend more time coordinating and less time building. Every new feature overlaps and intertwine with features in other teams’ roadmaps.https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/engineering/capabilities/security/software-bill-of-materials-devsecops/Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:33:57 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/engineering/capabilities/security/software-bill-of-materials-devsecops/Over the last decade, software developers have increasingly adopted open-source software to assemble their applications. Open software has become essential for teams to reduce time-to-value.https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/operating-model/away-team-model/Fri, 20 May 2022 16:56:47 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/operating-model/away-team-model/Product-oriented organizations rely heavily on small cross-functional teams. These teams keep companies fast and nimble. However, I learned firsthand that the faster you grow, the more fragmented and complex your technical and organizational dependencies become.https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/well-architected-framework/automating-well-architected-principles/Tue, 10 May 2022 11:33:57 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/well-architected-framework/automating-well-architected-principles/This series explores patterns I have observed in big companies scaling up well-architected frameworks across the board: Part 1: Adopting a Well-Architected Framework across the Organization Part 2: Automating Well-Architected Principles Part 3: Customizing a Well-Architected Framework Part 4: Establishing a Well-Architected Central Hub Well-architected frameworks help organizations build secure, cost-efficient, and reliable applications.https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/well-architected-framework/adopting-well-architected-framework-organization/Sun, 03 Apr 2022 11:33:57 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/well-architected-framework/adopting-well-architected-framework-organization/Over the years, I facilitated numerous AWS Well-Architected reviews for customers at Amazon Web Services. A well-architected framework is a set of guiding principles that helps teams improve the quality of their workloads based on pillars (such as cost optimization, security, or reliability).https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/well-architected-framework/architecture-tenets-production-readiness-reviews-and-technical-excellence/Sat, 05 Feb 2022 16:56:47 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/well-architected-framework/architecture-tenets-production-readiness-reviews-and-technical-excellence/For digital companies, speed disproportionally matters. Many organizations are trying to improve their time-to-value–how long it takes to put an idea into customers’ hands.https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/tolerating-eliminating-duplication/Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:33:57 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/tolerating-eliminating-duplication/I learned early on that operating digital organizations in separable single-threaded teams prevents coupling in product development and enables the organization to run multiple initiatives in parallel with minimum coordination.https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/mental-models/decision-making/tenets-at-amazon/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 16:56:47 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/mental-models/decision-making/tenets-at-amazon/Two critical characteristics of successful product-oriented teams are autonomy and bias for action. Teams should independently make decisions fast while maintaining alignment with the organization’s overall strategy.https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/single-threaded-model/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 11:33:57 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/single-threaded-model/Single-threaded leadership is the most critical organizational design concept at Amazon. It has been instrumental in avoiding coupling and slow velocity while increasing the number of initiatives that Amazon can run in parallel.https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon-organization-design/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 11:33:57 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon-organization-design/In business, speed disproportionately matters. Over the last decades, we have learned that the most critical metric in innovation is time-to-value; how long it takes to turn an idea into customer value.https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/author/pedro-del-gallego/Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:14:19 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/author/pedro-del-gallego/As a hands-on engineering leader, I help companies and other engineering leaders to build nimble digital organizations. Contact me if you’d like to grab a coffee, chat or see how I might be able to help.https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/search/Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:07:10 +0600https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/search/https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/about/As a hands-on engineering leader, I help companies and other engineering leaders to build nimble digital organizations. 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