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DevOps is a culture, not a role!

DevOps is not a "role". DevOps was introduced: to change the culture (which also needed a change in traditional management thinking and habits)to empower teams to continuously grow with more autonomy and less dependencies (which needs more trust, governance, and better risk management)to continuously experiment, analyze the risk, learn, and adapt to changes It was an attempt to change management s... [read more]

April 2, 2025

DevOps is a culture, not a role!

You don't need that many meetings

⏳ Daily Standup (report to me style or daily Scrum to align?) 😵‍💫 ⏳ Project Status Update (Weekly Sync) 😵‍💫 ⏳ On-Call Rotation / Incident Handover 😵‍💫 ⏳ Quarterly Business Review (QBR) 😵‍💫 ⏳ Backlog Refinement (Grooming) 😵‍💫 ⏳ Incident Review (Postmortem) 😵‍💫 ⏳ Product Roadmap Meeting(s) 😵‍💫 ⏳ Change Management / CAB 😵‍💫 ⏳ Code Review / Peer Review 😵‍💫 ⏳ Inter-Team Alignment(s) �... [read more]

April 1, 2025

You don't need that many meetings

The reality of story points

What is 1 story point? I bet if you ask 10 people, you'll get 10 different answers. Yet, we "estimate" and measure based on that. What is the origin of story points? Story points originated from Extreme Programming (XP) as a way to estimate effort without tying it directly to time. The idea was to move away from inaccurate time-based estimates and instead use a relative sizing approach. They were ... [read more]

March 27, 2025

The reality of story points

What is "right" and what is "wrong"? — in IT

Right and Wrong: Philosophical Debate The question of what is right and wrong has been a central theme of human thought for centuries. Is morality absolute, or does it depend on the context? Philosophers have long debated how ethical principles should be determined. Do we have "the good" and "the bad" or is it all relative? Let's begin with a general debate and see how the answer to the question e... [read more]

September 19, 2024

What is "right" and what is "wrong"? — in IT
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DevOps is a culture, not a role!

DevOps is not a "role". DevOps was introduced: to change the culture (which also needed a change in traditional management thinking and habits)to empower teams to continuously grow with more autonomy and less dependencies (which needs more trust, governance, and better risk management)to continuously experiment, analyze the risk, learn, and adapt to changes It was an attempt to change management s... [read more]

April 2, 2025

DevOps is a culture, not a role!

You don't need that many meetings

⏳ Daily Standup (report to me style or daily Scrum to align?) 😵‍💫 ⏳ Project Status Update (Weekly Sync) 😵‍💫 ⏳ On-Call Rotation / Incident Handover 😵‍💫 ⏳ Quarterly Business Review (QBR) 😵‍💫 ⏳ Backlog Refinement (Grooming) 😵‍💫 ⏳ Incident Review (Postmortem) 😵‍💫 ⏳ Product Roadmap Meeting(s) 😵‍💫 ⏳ Change Management / CAB 😵‍💫 ⏳ Code Review / Peer Review 😵‍💫 ⏳ Inter-Team Alignment(s) �... [read more]

April 1, 2025

You don't need that many meetings

The reality of story points

What is 1 story point? I bet if you ask 10 people, you'll get 10 different answers. Yet, we "estimate" and measure based on that. What is the origin of story points? Story points originated from Extreme Programming (XP) as a way to estimate effort without tying it directly to time. The idea was to move away from inaccurate time-based estimates and instead use a relative sizing approach. They were ... [read more]

March 27, 2025

The reality of story points

What is "right" and what is "wrong"? — in IT

Right and Wrong: Philosophical Debate The question of what is right and wrong has been a central theme of human thought for centuries. Is morality absolute, or does it depend on the context? Philosophers have long debated how ethical principles should be determined. Do we have "the good" and "the bad" or is it all relative? Let's begin with a general debate and see how the answer to the question e... [read more]

September 19, 2024

What is "right" and what is "wrong"? — in IT
per page
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