#sociotechnical-systems

#sociotechnical-systems

A little bit about myself. In my previous life, I was staff platform engineering. I focused a lot of development engineering and everything that basically was the sociotechnical aspect of our technical work. I recently was working as a CTO and co-founder of a startup, and nowadays I'm just doing advisory roles and a little bit of consulting while trying to think about the next big thing. Yes, so happy to be talking with you, Shane.

As the name suggests, sociotechnical refers to the ways in which social and technical aspects of an organization relate to one another. In the context of technology companies, you can think of the organization itself as a sociotechnical system. Something that's important to note is that sociotechnical theory doesn't just acknowledge these two aspects, it emphasizes that they're inherently interconnected.