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Presentations Made Simple – How To Connect To A Non Technical Audience
Yesterday I came across Admin Zen by Michael “Mika” Prokop. Admin Zen is a great collection of habits you should try to master if you are responsible for running any critical systems. If you haven’t...
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Open Communication Stops De-Motivating your Team
Mykl Roventine Instead of motivating our teams, we should simply stop de-motivating them. Everyone you work with is highly motivated by default. But, bad information policies, countermanding orders or...
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How to guide a team through a crisis
rofreg No matter whether your team is self-organizing or not, when the shit hits the fan, they’ll need strict rules and close guiding to manage the crisis. Clear Responsibilities First, everyone has...
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Launch Dates – The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
jurvetson Setting a launch date for your new web site is common practice. Even though nobody knows what exactly the site might look like and even less how much effort it will be to launch it, the...
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Do you have a DevOps Culture?
John Schooner A lot of Sysadmins and developers all over the world write, meet and talk about DevOps: How to collaborate better so we can deliver business value faster. The aim of DevOps is to get rid...
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The 5 Goals Of Agile And DevOps
hooverine If you’re stuck with someone in an elevator and have only a few seconds to explain why introducing agile Methodolgies and DevOps is a good idea, these five goals might help you: Agile...
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Why projects fail and how to make them succeed with more transparency
© Matthias Marschall Imagine you’re driving your car through uncharted territory to a destination only vaguely described by “That Guy” who told you to go there. “That Guy” was kind enough to give you...
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Where Agile Starts
atomicjeep In most enterprises, employees are referred to as resources. Heck, it’s even worse. There’s a whole department dealing with human resources. This, my friend, is bad. It’s bad because it...
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Is DevOps just a fad?
Alasdair Middleton There are DevOps tools and DevOps job ads. People talk about culture and sharing and being nice to each other. Sounds pretty fishy, right? The only thing missing is a DevOps...
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How badly set goals create a tug-of-war in your DevOps organization
Wikipedia A rope. Eight people on either side. “Pull!” And then it begins: both parties are pulling in their own direction. A tug-of-war has started. Imagine your developers and sysadmins as those two...
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Leadership In the Online Age: A Reflection On Team-Building
MR.SWITCH? CRS FERc In the last decade of my career, I’ve been extremely fortunate to have worked with some of the best people I’ve ever known. A big contributing factor to this is the tech-savvy,...
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DevOps Dudes: Aligning Goals
Their bosses should’ve decided on a shared goal before they declared that DevOps organization… See the older DevOps Dudes cartoons: The DevOps Dudes DevOps Dudes: Meerkat
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3 Reasons Why Your Team Needs Rituals
Nathan Borror It’s the same every morning: you get up and grab your morning coffee. No matter whether you brew it at home or fetch it on the road, your morning coffee is a ritual you never want to...
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Three things you need to stop doing when becoming an engineering manager
Rainer Stropek You are a great software engineer with years of experience under your belt. You’ve seen too many technologies come and go to easily fall for the next hyped framework. You choose the...
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