At the cornerstone of any successful DevOps transformation is effective communication between all members in an organization, from the business leaders, IT leaders, middle management and out to each individual member on their teams. Yet, so many times in organizational change, we see a monumental communication breakdowns occur. So it’s no surprise that every year […]
DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 Programming Highlights: What I’m Looking Forward To
I am so excited about the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) Las Vegas. As a programming committee, we seek to make each event better than the last, as measured by how much we learn and how it helps enable the DevOps Enterprise community to achieve their goals. As a programming committee, we thought London 2019 was our […]
DOES19 London: Sharing DevOps Lessons Learned
There’s a long-held belief in the DevOps space, “If you’re not moving forward, you’re dying.” But if you’re a DevOps veteran, you know that one of the best ways to orient yourself to keep moving, regardless of where you’re at in your DevOps journey, is to listen to stories of others—both their successes and failures. […]
DOES19 London: Effective Team Management Foments New Ways of Working
In the IT space it feels like we collectively begin asking and ruminating on the same question all at once, chewing on all the possible answers and outcomes. Recently, one such question has begun popping up with more and more frequency: “How can we help teams, and especially product teams, be more effective?” While more […]
DOES London 2019: Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier (BVSSH)
One of the key themes for this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit in London was BV-S,S,H. It stands for Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier. It gets to the heart of what DevOps is trying to do: Deliver better value, sooner, safer and it results in happier people and organizations. Gene Kim mentioned this several times on […]
DOES London 2019: Give Repos the Respect They Deserve
Think about it. could we have a DevOps or even agile without code repositories (repos)? Repos allow for version control, team collaboration, testing on check in and more. So much of what we do today around software development and DevOps is based on the repo. For a long time and even today, the repo was […]
DOES 2019: Understanding the Effects of Burnout
If you work in the IT field, cybersecurity, the startup world or any other high-pressure job, you or someone you know has probably suffered from burnout in one form or another. If so, you already know that burnout is a real condition with significant consequences. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently recognized burnout […]