• Culture: mutual trust, willingness to learn and continuous improvement, constant flow of information, open-mindedness to changes and experimentation
• Automation: deployment pipelines (CI/CD), comprehensive test automation
• Lean: minimize WIP state, shorten and amplify feedback loops, look for opportunities to remove waste, fix errors as they are discovered
• Measurement: monitoring, system metrics, KPIs
• Sharing: sharing knowledge & practices, including successes & failures, learn from each other's experiences, proactively communicate, shadowing & pairing on tasks

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