More entries to the Practice of Practice collection! Grow with your team! Find that empathy everyone is talking about! Build relationships! Learn the system!

systems seeing journalling by @RuthMalan

instrumenting complexity with LEGO from @mike_bowler

https://github.com/maroda/practiceofpractice

#SRE #PracticeOfPractice #ResilienceEngineering #GamePlay #Improvisation

Here's a new blog post from me! It's a small "book" review, which is actually a workbook with some essays at the beginning.

The short book is Maj. John Schmitt's exercise book on Tactical Decision Games (TDGs) for the Marines (and likely other branches), and I noticed how much the philosophy behind them is shared with the sorts of Practice of Practice games we play to understand the system and prepare ourselves for incidents.

https://www.sounding.com/2025/05/02/schmitt-tdg-sre/

#SRE #TDG #PracticeOfPractice #TabletopExercises #OperationalReadiness #IncidentResponse #TacticalDecisionGames #Resilience #ResilienceEngineering #ReliabilityEngineering

Saturday morning read: I wrote a review of a fairly well known Tactical Decision Games exercise book written 30 years ago that is still applicable today. I wanted to show how the ideas behind such practice are exactly like how we practice for the unexpected in fields like SRE and Arctic rescue.

https://www.sounding.com/2025/05/02/schmitt-tdg-sre/

#SRE #TDG #MajJohnSchmitt #NDM #GaryKlein #NaturalisticDecisionMaking #ResilienceEngineering #PracticeOfPractice #TacticalDecisionGames #ChaosEngineering

New post introducing the original charter I wrote two years ago for my weekly collaboration sessions, in which I point out the subtlety of defining what "Practice" means...

#PracticeOfPractice #SRE #complexity #resilience

https://www.popg.xyz/2023/11/07/formal-idea/