What prevents you from getting work done? One of the top answers is too many meetings! Too many interruptions, meetings, and tools overburdens workers and can lead to burn out. In this post, we visit Dominica DeGrandis's advice for creating a balanced calendar to optimize your time. Too Many Meetings A calendar full of meetings leads to little time to complete actual work. We double book, triple book, and even quadruple book our time. Dominica DeGrandis describes three common types of … [Read more...]
8 Recommended Talks from DevOps Enterprise Summit (and Why)
Recently, I was speaking with a friend in a large bank, and I ended up writing him a letter recommending some talks that I thought would be useful. Below I list each of them, along with why I think they'd be of interest. 1) Credit Suisse from London - Virtual 2020 Andrea Hausmann, Head of Program Strategy & Engagement, Credit SuisseDuncan Lawie, Director, DevOps and Development Practices, Credit Suisse I think this is a super interesting talk, because they’re a centralized group that owns … [Read more...]
How to Embed More of the Business Outside IT with DevOps Principles
A series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters. We all know that for DevOps to truly be as successful as it can be, it's best to get the business on board. But how do you translate something from IT to the rest of the business? Top experts from DevOps Enterprise Summit are here to help. “Organizations who develop software need to realize the truth that 'Business' and 'IT' are the same thing. You'd never build a car with a hard separation between marketing, design, and … [Read more...]
Creating Small Successes to Prove DevOps Works
A series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters. We've all heard that the key to DevOps is small successes that you build upon. But what do those small successes actually look like? How do you start? Top experts from DevOps Enterprise Summit are here to weigh in. “Pick a team. Automate the build and deploy process with no human touches between commit and deploy. That one step removes significant variability and defect generation. Stabilize your quality signal, even if it … [Read more...]
How to Convince Reluctant Developers to Embrace DevOps
A series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters. We've all met that colleague. The one who just won't get behind DevOps. No matter their reasons, here's some great advice on what to say to those reluctant colleagues from top experts from DevOps Enterprise Summit. “We say 'Deploy more. Sleep better.' This of course assumes the developer has quality ownership. If the developer can use Grenade Driven Development to hand off the pain of poor quality and is only responsible … [Read more...]
Working From Home During a Pandemic: A Tale of Two Cities
“We're doing very well. We're barely hanging in there. Some people are loving work from home. Some people are hating work from home. So who's right? Who's wrong? How do we make sense of it? And what's the data tell us, because remember, we aren't just working from home, we're working from home through a pandemic, and at least in the US, a handful of other crises. So while there isn't a perfect examination of life and working from home, we do have some interesting data points. We can look out … [Read more...]
Benefits of a DevOps Mindset
A series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters. Sometimes, it's not easy to help a boss or colleague understand why and how DevOps can solve many or your problems. But these experts from the DevOps Enterprise Summit boil it down to its simplest and most powerful for you. “We are designing an entire system of delivery, from idea to end user, around the truth that every requirement is wrong, we've misunderstood it, and/or it will have changed by the time we can deliver a … [Read more...]
Advice on Getting Teams to Accept Change
A series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters. Change is always hard. And harder for some than others. In this post, we continue our series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters. What is your top advice for getting teams to accept change? "Bring them information on how it makes their lives better. Have engineers who've worked this way evangelize this way of working. Those of us who've been on this journey for a while will not go back to … [Read more...]
DevOps Enterprise Summit FAQ
Thank you for attending DevOps Enterprise Summit Vegas - Virtual! We’re so delighted that you were able to join us for one the best programs we’ve ever produced — the positive feedback has been so fantastic to read, as well as your suggestions! I was so pleased that we were able to improve upon the great London-Virtual attendee experience, showing that many elements that make conferences magical can be replicated in a virtual format — and in some ways, even exceed it. As a reminder: the mission … [Read more...]
Advice on Helping Transform from Project to Product
A series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters. Moving from a project-centric to product-centric organization is on a lot of enterprises list. Continuing our series of advice blogs from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 presenters, we asked for advice on how to achieve this shift. What is your top advice to help an organization transform from a project to product approach? "First, there needs to be an understanding that project teams cannot compete against product … [Read more...]
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