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Toil Identification Checklist & Survery Question in SRE

  • Averaging over the past four weeks, approximately what fraction of your time did you spend on toil?  
    • Scale 0-100%
  • How happy are you with the quantity of time you spend on toil? 
    • Not happy / OK / No problem at all
  • What are your top three sources of toil?
    • On-call Response / Interrupts / Pushes / Capacity / Other / etc.
  • Do you have a long-term engineering project in your quarterly objectives?
    • Yes / No
  • If so, averaging over the past four weeks, approximately what fraction of your time did you spend on your engineering project? (estimate)
    • Scale 0-100%
  • In your team, is there toil you can automate away but you don’t do so, because that very toil takes time away from long-term engineering work? If so, please describe below.
    • Open response
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