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July 2019 - Developer Support

DevOps and Mental Models

July 28, 2019 Jul 28, 2019 07/28/19
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We need to regularly update our Mental Models but more importantly we need to find better means to update our Mental Models if we are serious about enabling a better culture which enables more innovation and happier individuals in our organization.

DevOps and Complex Adaptive Systems

July 26, 2019 Jul 26, 2019 07/26/19
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What is DevOps? This is a question that I find challenging to answer and the more I study the subject the more difficult it is to define the term. One way to think of DevOps is by applying the notion of Complex Adaptive Systems.

Scrum Isn’t Always Perfect (and that’s okay)

July 17, 2019 Jul 17, 2019 07/17/19
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Over the years, I have coached and researched dozens of scrum teams to adapt to “real world” scenarios. Some may call them anti-patterns or some may call them “not scrum”-- but that is okay too because sometimes we have to work with what we have and still find ways to be successful.

DevOps or Economies of Flow

July 16, 2019 Jul 16, 2019 07/16/19
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The very notion of economies of scale arose during the early industrial age but unfortunately is still prevalent in many industries, including software development. However, that has changed with DevOps but it still isn’t obvious otherwise I would not come across customers that still work in this paradigm.

One Project To Rule Them All

July 15, 2019 Jul 15, 2019 07/15/19
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Unfortunately, many enterprises have multiple organizations and projects in their portfolio and merging them into a single project can seem a daunting task. While there are tools out there that can help, there is no “Single Tool To Rule Them All”.

Deploying a Virtual Assistant on the cheap

July 12, 2019 Jul 12, 2019 07/12/19
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The thing I was interested in recently was deploying to the smallest and least expensive dev/test instances of the various services in order to keep the cost down. Since this was just for demo purposes and I would be the only one talking to the bot, I didn’t need the capacity and scale of the default install.