Social Skills for DevOps: Whose responsibility?
In his post “DevOps developers; don´t be a DevGoof” on devops.com Parker Yates pointed out, that developers have to become more social. Devs should better realize that they need to become a normal part...
View ArticleCommunication: 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...
View ArticleMoving 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe complexity of communication: Are we all Masters of Disaster?
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...
View ArticleDevOps Must Also Mean OpsDev
Why DevOps Communications Need to Be a Two-Way Street Today, mobile apps have become one of the most important components of brand awareness and opinion. Often considered a company’s “front door,” a...
View ArticleWake Wants to Help Streamline Your Collaboration
Effective collaboration is imperative to DevOps success. DevOps has many moving pieces working simultaneously and things happen fast, making it crucial that teams and individuals have an easy way to...
View Article4 Essential Practices to Succeed at ChatOps
We know enterprises are embracing messaging apps and incorporating so-called “ChatOps” into their workflow. ChatOps is, potentially, a powerful way to facilitate more swift decision-making and...
View ArticleShould Continuous Deployment Be Renamed?
I’m a technologist turned into a word person. For those of you who know me, I started as a developer, learned ops and security as it was needed, and eventually my love of talking about technology lead...
View ArticleIncreasing Your ‘Bionic Footprint’ with DevOps
“The Six Million Dollar Man” was a 1970s TV series. In the show, NASA astronaut Colonel Steve Austin is severely injured in a crash and is “rebuilt” with bionic features that enhance his strength,...
View ArticleCommunicating and Collaboration in a Digital Age
The way we communicate with the world has changed drastically in the last 20 years. Gone are the days of pen and paper, lengthy phone calls and, to a certain extent, even emails. Gone are the days of...
View ArticleDevOps: The Innovation Power Couple
If “Dev” and “Ops” are the power couple of tech, “DevOps” is the holy matrimony that takes innovation from trainwreck to fast and repeatable. At most businesses, however, Dev and Ops still sleep in...
View ArticleIt’s About Communication, not Silos
Too often, when enterprise folks talk with DevOps aficionados, we get a loud chorus of “Culture Change” and “Take down the silos,” and frankly that scares any sane enterprise IT person. Not because...
View ArticleStop Talking About the Number of Times You’ll Deploy
It’s the late 1940s and the automobile industry is just taking off. You run one of the product marketing teams at Chrysler. Wanting to make the best of an exploding market, your marketing team says,...
View ArticleBest Practices for Internal Communication in DevOps
DevOps has become a widely popular method of collaboration in the IT world. The combination of development, operations and quality assurance, DevOps requires every project have clear communication...
View ArticleHow IT is More Like an ATV Than a Sedan
There is an analogy for IT being like a car and it often goes something like this: IT should run like a well-oiled machine. I don’t get in my car and think about how it works, I just work some controls...
View Article8 Reasons Why DevOps Needs Competent Writing Skills
It’s a fact: DevOps practitioners need to have competent writing skills to help them in their career. It may seem a little antithetic—after all, software engineers and programmers are well-known to be...
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4 Essential Practices to Succeed at ChatOps
We know enterprises are embracing messaging apps and incorporating so-called “ChatOps” into their workflow. ChatOps is, potentially, a powerful way to facilitate more swift decision-making and...
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Should Continuous Deployment Be Renamed?
I’m a technologist turned into a word person. For those of you who know me, I started as a developer, learned ops and security as it was needed, and eventually my love of talking about technology lead...
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Increasing Your ‘Bionic Footprint’ with DevOps
“The Six Million Dollar Man” was a 1970s TV series. In the show, NASA astronaut Colonel Steve Austin is severely injured in a crash and is “rebuilt” with bionic features that enhance his strength,...
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