If you’re doing DevOps and releasing frequently you may be aware of the DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics. These have been identified as four… Read More »Release Cadence Considered a Poor Quality Metric
Yesterday’s email about incident management led me to find another interesting and related podcast. Reducing On-Call Engineer Burnout with a Volunteer Management Infrastructure from TopEndDevs.com… Read More »Making The Promise To Your Customer, Early
This week, something remarkable happened. The English Test Cricket Team won a game against India that they really shouldn’t have won. They did it despite… Read More »Reimagining the High Performing Team
This week on Automation for the Nation I discuss Thinking In Systems and Change Management, talking about systems complexity and systems change. How do we… Read More »Thinking in Systems & Change Management
We are in a post Waterfall, post Agile world. So where does that leave us with our software and IT projects? Agile started as a reaction to… Read More »Agile vs Waterfall Doesn’t Matter: The Three Degrees of Perfect Projects
When building a house, when building a bridge, when building a car, when building a space station: the world thinks in projects. But how to… Read More »How to Run a Successful Project
The developer wants to get on with her work but the scrum master says that she needs to join a refinement session. The product manager… Read More »How to Know When Your (SaaS) Systems are Broken
It’s the change you’ve all been dreaming of. You’ve been putting it off for years but now you’re going to get it done. You have… Read More »Avoiding the “Big Bang” project
An expert doesn’t start out an expert. The road to learning is endless. You start with a calling, you study, you pass your exams, you… Read More »What’s a professional association to do?
What is automation? We know we need it but what does it actually mean? Here are a few definitions: System – something that we do… Read More »Getting Ready to Automate