What do Chevy V8s and DevOps have in common? They’re both complex systems with many interactions between their moving parts. The first time I did minor surgery on a Chevy engine I learned a lot about systems. The engine was a tired 283 cubic inch V8 in a 1966 Chevy Malibu which my grandfather purchased new […]
DevOps and The Goal
Reading, “The Goal” was a pivotal event in my career. More than a decade ago a friend of mine who was an operations professor at Georgia Tech told me it was his favorite book. We were discussing the challenges of getting work done in a corporate environment. I was grumbling about leading a web dev […]