As an engineer, you intuitively understand it’s a challenge to design systems for how people and technology work together. By taking a page from sociotechnical system theory — originally conceptualized around coal mining operations — and adapting it to modern “code mining” operations.

It applies an understanding of the social structures, roles and rights (the social sciences) to inform the design of systems that involve communities of people and technology.” Here’s a visual representation of a sociotechnical system, a living knowledge map covering all the applications, services, environments, resources, teams, tools, documentation and governance involved in modern software applications.

With https://www.configure8.io/?utm_source=thenewstack&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=sociotechnicalknowledgemap, connect your tools and clouds via single-click integrations, link resources to environments and services, tag owners and documentation, integrate your tools, and you’ve got a living sociotechnical knowledge map covering your applications, services, environments, resources, and key information about them that was previously fragmented across your tools, clouds and teams.

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