Psychological Safety Glossary Definition

Term Psychological Safety
Definition

Psychological Safety is a DevOps concept that describes how people, teams, and organizations work together to improve software delivery, operational reliability, and continuous learning.

Context & Usage

Teams use this concept when reducing handoffs, making ownership clearer, and creating the trust needed for frequent, reliable change.

Related concepts include DevOps, Agile and Continuous Improvement.

Additional Resource: DORA: The Four Key Metrics.

Psychological Safety is important in adult learning because experienced learners may bring prior successes, anxieties, workplace status, or past school experiences into training.

Categories Instructional Design, Technical Training, and Learning Development, Knowledge Management and Content Governance, Web, Database, Cloud, and DevOps Technologies