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SkillSoft Explore Course

IT Skills     Networks and Telecommunications     Site Reliability Engineering     Communication and Collaboration for the SRE

Collaboration is key to getting the most out of your team and ensuring your clients receive their desired service. In this course, you'll learn to collaborate and communicate as an SRE effectively.


You'll learn how to run traditional and virtual meetings to ensure maximum effectiveness and productivity, whether it's with customers, internal or external team members, or distributed teams. You'll examine how to plan, carry out, and post-analyze meetings using best practices and sufficient preparation, tailoring these methods to suit the participants and the end-goal.


You'll delve into the unique characteristics of different meeting types, such as those for problem-solving or innovation. You'll explore the advantages and challenges of SRE pair programming. You'll then end the course by investigating some helpful collaboration and communication tools.



Objectives

Core Skills for Site Reliability Engineers: SRE Collaboration & Communication

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • describe the importance of communication and collaboration and running effective SRE meetings
  • describe best practices when running meetings for SREs
  • recognize the importance of communication and collaboration and running effective SRE meetings virtually
  • describe the best practices when running virtual meetings for SREs
  • list the types of meetings that are useful for an SRE
  • describe how pair programming can be an effective collaboration tool for an SRE
  • describe how an SRE can work effectively and collaboratively with distributed teams
  • outline best methods for collaborating with external customers
  • outline methods for working with external customers to develop and support applications
  • describe real-life scenarios in which effective collaboration has helped external customers resolve their technical support issues
  • state the types of tools that can be used to develop software with external customers rapidly
  • compare the features of various conferencing software that can be used for virtual meetings
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course