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4 Ways to Integrate Development and Operations Efforts

Premier DeveloperJune 30, 2019Jun 30, 201906/30/19

How do you deal with the fact that the developers in your organization cannot or will not own the process of delivering into production? How do you deal with the fact that your operations engineers cannot or do not fully understand the software to which they have been given stewardship?

The Journey Begins – DevOps starts with culture!

Premier DeveloperJune 29, 2019Jun 29, 201906/29/19

At this point we were five plus years into a local transformation that was underappreciated and overlooked by the global IT organization. The frustration was high and the hope was waning. For me this became my motivation to start a journey to understand why some organization can adopt DevOps strategies successfully and other struggle.

Tribal Knowledge – The Anti-DevOps Culture

Premier DeveloperJune 27, 2019Jun 27, 201906/27/19

By removing or reducing tribal knowledge from projects and teams, organizations set themselves up for success in an ever-changing landscape (exponentially changing). In other words, you can add to your DevOps culture (or create one) simply by subtracting the bad habits and behaviors.

Is the latest technology the key to your team’s success, or is there something else?

Premier DeveloperJune 15, 2019Jun 15, 201906/15/19

We experienced many different emotions with what seemed like a daunting task. What made it less daunting, the facilitators reminded us, was that we are not alone - we are team - so, leverage each other.

DevOps and Your Definition of Done

Premier DeveloperJune 10, 2019Jun 10, 201906/10/19

DevOps, among other things, is about collaboration, and a shared responsibility for delivering features into production. Your Definition of Done should reflect this. Learn why and how you should explicitly define Done to improve collaboration and quality.

Understanding Your Cloud Adoption Maturity Level

Premier DeveloperJune 8, 2019Jun 8, 201906/8/19

To be successful an enterprise must address people, process and technology when adopting the cloud. I often witness organizations migrating to Azure focus primarily on the cloud technologies and fail to assess their current maturity readiness.

How to fetch a user’s profile from Azure Active Directory using PowerShell

Premier DeveloperJune 2, 2019Jun 2, 201906/2/19

On my recent journey helping customers migrate from TFS to VSTS; one of the most common obstacle is verifying that users marked for active import to VSTS have matching AAD records. Thankfully there is a fairly streamlined way to do this using PowerShell and the Azure Graph API.

Conflicting Principles; DevOps VS ITIL.

Premier DeveloperMay 20, 2019May 20, 201905/20/19

On the surface DevOps and ITIL seem to be contradictory practices, with the former being more used in development work and the latter being more used for services/operations. However, if we drill down into their fundamentals you will find that DevOps cannot exist in its entirety without a framework such as ITIL.

Building a better DSC script

Premier DeveloperMay 10, 2019May 10, 201905/10/19

For those people that want to build a better DSC script, one that checks for most conditions and wants to keep their custom scripts from failing with no error handling, check out these recommendations.

Using Azure DevOps to Deploy Web Applications to Virtual Machines

Premier DeveloperApril 23, 2019Apr 23, 201904/23/19

While it’s worth mentioning that hosting web applications using Azure PaaS offerings or via containers would be the preferred route for a variety of reasons, VMs are still widely used in many organizations. With that scenario in mind, this post is geared to helping you get started with streamlining your release process. As a note, much of this process translates easily to using Azure PaaS offerings.

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