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Role Based Path - SRE, Infra, Reliability

This guide is for SRE and Infrastructure leaders who need clearer signals on change risk, operational load, and how delivery patterns intersect with reliability outcomes. It focuses on using team flo…

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This guide is for SRE and Infrastructure leaders who need clearer signals on change risk, operational load, and how delivery patterns intersect with reliability outcomes. It focuses on using team flow and iteration context to make reliability work visible and measurable alongside feature delivery.

Time Required: 6–10 minutes to orient, 20 minutes to set a reliability + delivery cadence
Difficulty: Easy

TL;DR

  • Use Metrics → Delivery to understand where flow patterns may increase change risk.
  • Use Teams → Iterations (Completed) to track unplanned work and reliability-driven scope shifts.
  • Use Developer Coaching (if enabled) to spot workload patterns that may indicate operational strain.
  • If your organization has configured incident/reliability metrics in LinearB, use them alongside delivery trends to strengthen your narrative.
  • Use gitStream (if enabled) to standardize safe-change behaviors with low noise.

What you likely care about

  • Are change patterns increasing reliability risk?
  • Is operational work visible and linked to planning?
  • Where is unplanned reliability work eroding feature capacity?
  • Which low-noise standards can reduce risk without slowing flow?

Where to spend time in LinearB

Metrics → Delivery
  • Monitor stage-level trends and PR-size patterns that may indicate risk.
Teams → Iterations (Completed)
  • Review unplanned work patterns tied to reliability events.
  • Use this data to justify capacity and tooling investments.
gitStream (if enabled)
  • Adopt safe-change and low-noise hygiene guardrails.

Metrics to prioritize

  • Cycle Time stage trends relevant to change risk.
  • Unplanned work patterns.
  • Reliability/incident signals if your org has configured them.

Recommended SRE/Infra operating rhythm

  • Weekly: review Delivery trends for risk patterns and emerging bottlenecks.
  • Per sprint: confirm reliability work is visible and linked in Iterations.
  • Monthly: propose 1 systemic risk-reduction improvement to test.

You now have a reliability-focused path to connect change patterns with operational outcomes.

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