From an article in the New York Times: [F]iles demonstrate how members of the regime did not trust their colleagues, or their subordinates—and that this lack of trust gravely undermined their ability to blunt the rising revolution. Sounds like how some organizations are struggling to deal with the tectonic shifts generally occurring within our industry. Read More
Shortly after Pete Cheslock’s talk at DevOpsDays Pittsburgh, I tweeted: Wanting execs to value trust & learning will be a losing proposition until we stop firing ‘em for missing a quarter’s numbers #devopsdayspgh The context was about building DevOps culture and practices within the organization, and giving people the time and space they need to Read More
I was reading about infamous Microsoft Technical “Evangelist” Jim Plamondon, at the suggestion of Matt Ray; I found this gem: Mopping Up can be a lot of fun. In the Mopping Up phase, Evangelism’s goal is to put the final nail into the competing technology’s coffin, and bury it in the burning depths of the Read More
Like most people, I have too many tabs floating around in my browser. I just finished reading a New York times commentary that’s a couple of months old now, but well worth the read; it’s called “The Surprisingly Large Cost of Telling Small Lies.” Some relevant quotations: I did some research and it seems most Read More
From How Silicon Valley Became The Man: That’s all a way of ignoring the systems that make the world possible. One example from the ‘60s that I think is pretty telling is all the road trips. The road trips are always about the heroic actions of people like Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady and their Read More
I’ve been a Mozilla Planet module peer since the module was created in 2007. The module, as incepted then, might have never existed, were it not for the issues I raised… but alas I’ve told that story already, and if you really care, you can click that link. As originally created, our role was to Read More
My grandmother passed away last week. She was 85. Due to a series of poor choices1, compounded by the geriatric randomness, her last few weeks were spent in a county nursing facility. So the platitudes we all hear2 about “being in a better place now” are most certainly true. When I look back upon time Read More
Last week, Perforce’s Matt Attaway and I got into an interesting twitversation de-constructing our beloved “DevOps” word. It all started because I received an email from a recruiter with a job description referencing a “DevOps team”1, but with a description2 that sounded eerily familiar to the bread and butter of a build/release team. Matt suggested Read More
I recently read Tim Bray’s Software in 2014, a sort of “state-of-the-industry” post, including what to watch for in the upcoming year. It was a good read, but I found one of his observations, on the mobile space, interesting: The update cycles are slow. Days in the case of iOS, hours for Android (compared to Read More