It’s an exciting time to be an engineer. With companies today moving faster than ever, engineering teams are developing and deploying new code daily, continuously improving and advancing the business. But while the pace of modern development creates new opportunities for engineering teams, it introduces new challenges as well—in particular, making sure new code releases […]
How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture
If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. They often happen after the team showcases the work done during the sprint reviews or demos. The original intent behind retrospectives is to help the team […]
Self-Service Workload Protection for DevOps Teams
Everyone (or almost everyone) in the DevOps world likes to talk about the importance of security. But too often, these DevOps security conversations end with generic recommendations such as, “Follow the OWASP Top 10.” Don’t get me wrong—reference frameworks such as OWASP are great resources for helping to guide DevOps security. But it’s usually far […]
How to Improve DevOps Visibility
DevOps, by design, works quickly and accomplishes deadline-driven projects rapidly. With a high amount of project turnover, visibility into key operational data is easy to mismanage and can lead to simple mistakes, lack of optimization and organizational misalignment. To examine the effect of DevOps visibility, SmartDraw commissioned the “2019 DevOps Visibility Report.” The results were […]
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2019: Measuring the Skills Priority in DevOps
Although historically technology professionals were among the most adaptive specialists in the job market, a recent survey from SolarWinds found that DevOps teams, web product managers (WPMs) and developers lacked confidence in their current ability to effectively manage their current environments while engaging in future technologies. This balancing of current trends with future innovations is […]
What Building a March Madness Bracket Teaches About DevOps
Applying the lessons learned from the NCAA tournament to DevOps in your organization. ‘Tis the season for filling out brackets, secretly checking your favorite team’s livestream at work and watching your ranking rise and fall in the office pool. Unless you’re this guy, your bracket is already busted. However, there’s always hope for next year, […]
Integrating the Impactful Immersive Experience Team
Immersive: providing, involving or characterized by deep absorption or immersion in something (such as an activity or a real or artificial environment) — Merriam Webster Dictionary We immerse a teabag into hot water to brew tea, but when we speak of the “immersive experience” we’re not planning to boil anyone. We may, however, make them […]
Why Hiring Top Web Developers is a Good Idea
Web developers are a great addition to every organization. Having your own web developers to help you create web applications and websites can be invaluable to companies of every size. If you happen to be a software development team, they are indispensable members of your team. Because web developers are in such high demand, hiring […]
DevOps as Matrix Management
How matrix management can help teams work effectively regardless of skills We want teams to share a common purpose. They need a wide set of skills. If we lead by purpose, then we can’t lead by skill, so how are people going to be evaluated on their professional competence? How will they grow? Matrix management. […]
Code Yellow: When Operations Isn’t Perfect
Every now and then, engineering teams will get into trouble for any number of reasons. Sometimes, explosive growth catches the team by surprise. Or, on-call has gotten out of control, with alerts going off every five minutes. Or, development and operations teams simply have stopped seeing eye to eye. Regardless of why, the team is […]