To better the communication between people in tech teams is one important issue in daily work. Although we all grew up with communication from our early childhood on, we know, that communication often fails. But what do we all do about this discrepancy? Why do we accept eyes wide open these frequently painful failures? Why […]
How DevOps could save the world; like your colleagues’ day
DevOps is about a few things but above all, it’s about communication and understanding each other. In that spirit, I decided to create a new day to celebrate: “Like your colleagues’ day”. The rules are simple: The first rule of like your colleagues’ day is: You do not talk about Fight… Each year, on the […]
Moving from Infrastructure Automation to True DevOps
Deciding on two separate teams, or an integrated end-to-end team While a lot has been said about “the right way” to do DevOps, what we’re seeing in practice are two different approaches being tried to enable development and operations to work together as a team. On the one hand, there’s the approach to create an […]
Communication: Who is to blame for misunderstandings?
Communication is everywhere and it is far more than only the spoken word and its origin meaning. Communication is one of the most complex and also complicated topics in human relationships: most of the time very thrilling, sometimes frightening but always important! As we all grew up with communication, you might think, we should be […]
Social Skills for DevOps: Whose responsibility?
In his post “DevOps developers; don´t be a DevGoof” on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud Parker Yates pointed out, that developers have to become more social. Devs should better realize that they need to become a normal part of the business social structure. That is really true and extremely necessary to make DevOps more efficient. But is this the […]