Reading, “The Goal” was a pivotal event in my career.  More than a decade ago a friend of mine who was an operations professor at Georgia Tech told me it was his ...

Who hasn’t heard the classic statements “It works on my machine!” or, “Man that would have been easier with real data!”?  In either case, had the development happened in production, problems would ...

There’s a famous passage I’ve quoted from time to time when I see someone “stuck” with a problem, flailing potential fixes and solutions wildly in hope that one of them does the ...

If you're like me and spend a lot of time evaluating new technologies with the goal of "doing more faster" with your engineering organization, then you're certainly aware of the many choices ...

It seems that many people are afraid of the word refactor.  I think in many cases, if someone admits they need to refactor, it means they either didn’t do their job right.  ...

This post was originally published on my personal blog in May 2013.  But I think this topic is important and wanted it to be my first contribution to DevOps.com I used to be Director of DevOps…twice. Both ...

One of the great traits of an organization that adopts DevOps principles or even just an Agile methodology is that everything, and I mean everything, is more dynamic.  While each company will ...

When we think about changing organizational culture our immediate reaction is usually - yeah right, go fight city hall - and we take the Homer Simpson route, and don't even bother trying ...