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January 2020

How Can CIOs Seize the Moments That Matter in a Complex World?

Everybody puts value on work. But not all work is the same or valued in the same way. What if we told you there’s a way to gain/protect up to $1 million in new revenue, reduce unplanned downtime by more than 60%, and improve team productivity by nearly 25%? This is where the differentiation of work comes in. Most of our day-to-day work is planned out; i.e., it’s work with structure.

LaaS (Language as a Service) With Duolingo

欢迎! [Huānyíng] In Mandarin, this means “welcome,” the first Chinese phrase I ever learned as a Mandarin Language Minor in college. It took me two weeks to understand the tonal variations, one week to memorize and properly execute the written stroke pattern, and another week to hone the ability to say it with confidence to my teacher (aka 老师 [Lǎoshī]).

SOC 2 Type 2: A Company-Wide Commitment to Security

From open-sourcing our employee security training to sharing security best practices, PagerDuty is committed to contributing to the security community as a whole and considers security as a company-wide commitment. Our customers trust us to keep their data safe and secure. And on December 13, 2019, we took another step in embracing that trust by completing our SOC 2 Type 2 examination.

Lessons in Building Well-Formed Scrum and Kanban Teams

In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos set a rule: teams shouldn’t be larger than what two pizzas can feed, no matter how large a company gets. Setting this rule of small teams meant individuals spent less time providing status updates to each other and more time actually getting stuff done. It also allowed team members more time to focus on continuous improvement. PagerDuty, like Amazon, has a strong culture of continuous improvement.

See Your PagerDuty Account Clearly in 2020

What better way to start off the new year than reflecting on the past 12 months and conducting a retrospective of your systems, processes, and culture at your organization? For instance, what did your overall incident response look like in 2019? Was it a smooth and streamlined process or did chaos reign during incident conference calls? But when burning sage and holding magic crystals don’t refresh your office vibes or your incident response process, PagerDuty University has got you covered.