Why are you so busy?
Please note the important caveat in the article:<p><i>If the following are true: Your team is following software engineering practices that have been shown time and time again to be indicative of highly performing technology teams (think CI&#x2F;CD and DevOps).</i><p>This is all too often the root cause of developers being &quot;too busy&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve had some variation of the following conversation nearly verbatim with six different teams in the last twelve months:<p>Me: &quot;I can help you guys to set up Azure DevOps pipelines to automate your builds and deployments, you just need to make sure your code builds on an isolated machine first.&quot;<p>Them: &quot;That sounds nice, but we&#x27;re too busy to work on that.&quot;<p>Me: &quot;May I ask what is keeping you guys so busy?&quot;<p>Them: &quot;We have three (manual) deployments this week.&quot;<p>Me: &quot;ಠ_ಠ&quot;