A survey of 400 maintainers of open-source software projects suggests IT organizations should be paying a lot more attention to the degree to which the stewards of these projects are compensated before downloading software components.
7 Steps to DevOps Hiring Success
As many of us in the DevOps scene know, most companies are hiring, or, at least, trying to do so. The required skills and job descriptions can change entirely from […]
The War with Human Nature
What is the difference between “leading” edge and “bleeding” edge? Being the first human being to advocate change. It is a virtual war with human nature to accept change. For […]
To Be Continuous Podcast: Open Source Economics
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development, hosted by Heavybit members Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this […]
Changing Compensation Before it Kills Success
Have you ever seen the sign, “Will work for food”? If you deconstruct the premise a bit, we all work for the rewards systems that interests us. We “trade” our […]
3 Tips to Shape Human Behaviors and Achieve Your DevOps Goals
DevOps raises many questions around processes and technologies, but it is important to remember that people are the essential piece that makes DevOps work. Since my post on Generalists vs. […]







