I’m a huge fan of The Phoenix Project and I’m honored to count Gene Kim both as one of my professional inspirations and also as a personal friend. There is, however, a ...

The pressure to prove one's coding prowess can make a developer do some very clever and creative things with their source code. Sometimes it's just a unique approach, but every once in ...

The topic of DevOps has been a topic for many a debate over recent months years. Without adding fuel to the fire I'd like to present a slightly different take on the DevOps ...

You can’t turn around in the tech space without hearing about collaboration. Whether it has to do with the new economy being built around collaboration or the platforms designed to improve it ...

What do Chevy V8s and DevOps have in common?  They’re both complex systems with many interactions between their moving parts. The first time I did minor surgery on a Chevy engine I ...

Aside from the many technical manuals on our bookshelves, I bet everyone has a few that are more process or philosophically oriented which hold a special place in our hearts.   To me, ...

We all want to deliver excellent software to our customers. We now have a greater awareness than ever before of the interconnectedness of all the activities required to do so. The agile ...

Ever say a word 10 times in a row and feel it start to lose its meaning? Try it, say the word "boat" ten times out loud and watch what happens - ...

Welcome to my first installment in a series where I talk about my long transition as an engineer, first from a very traditional waterfall development methodology into a more Agile process, and ...

Stop me if you've heard this one: A guy walks into a meeting and says "We need a system that does something", and the engineer in the room replies "Oh, we can ...

Like many developers, I started my career in a waterfall-based development environment. I was at a very large telecom, working on a product that had been around literally for decades. We'd spend ...

I admire and appreciate the ideas of DevOps as a result of living through two decades of working in IT and experiencing the pain of what I would call the “failed state ...