Tag: Productivity
Debunking Misconceptions About Engineering Management in 2020
2020 will be a year we all remember for so many reasons. It has been a year full of uncertainty and confusion, and also one in which misconceptions abound. In the world ...
CTOs Should Embrace, Stick to a No-Meeting Day
Hector Aguilar | | company culture, CTO, engineering teams, mangement, no-meeting days, ProductivityYou know the feeling: You open your calendar in the morning to find a completely booked day, back-to-back meetings and not even 15 minutes of time to complete any of the items ...
How to Become a Great Engineering Manager
I wrote recently about the attributes of a 10x software engineer and a 20x one. Consequently, I received a few comments suggesting I create a similar list for engineering managers. I checked ...
Preventing the DevOps Dilemma
Clayton Christensen, in his bestseller, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” first outlines how innovation occurs, and then why large incumbents often fail to recognize, leverage and invest in new innovations in their industries. What ...
Meet the Citizen Developer
George V. Hulme | | application development, apps, citizen developer, enterprise, FileMaker, ProductivityMuch has been written on the rise of citizen developers, but little about who they are and why they choose to do what they do The enterprise is always thirsty for new ...
The Impact of Automation: Considering 3 Facts
I’ve been interested in the ramification of automation on human employment for a while now. My profession, IT, is bringing more automation to the planet every day. I would be irresponsible to ...
Increasing Your ‘Bionic Footprint’ with DevOps
contributor | | automation, bionic footprint, communication, culture, devops, measurement. sharing, Productivity, resiliency, strength"The Six Million Dollar Man" was a 1970s TV series. In the show, NASA astronaut Colonel Steve Austin is severely injured in a crash and is “rebuilt” with bionic features that enhance ...
Foster Creative Workers, not Assembly Lines
contributor | | assembly lines, creative workers, creativity, developers, employee value, Industrial Revolution, ProductivityWhy do we keep building assembly lines of creative people? Why do tech companies still structure their developer workforces around ideas invented during the industrial revolution over a century ago? It’s ignorant, lazy and, ...
5 Ways to Ensure IT Service Desk Agility
contributor | | agile, interactions, IT department, IT service desk, IT service management, Productivity, teamsThe agile approach is everywhere. Born in the software development world, agility means adaptive planning, ongoing development and continuous improvement. Rapid and flexible response to change is critical. It is not surprising ...
Last-Mile DevOps: How to Keep Employees Happy
contributor | | Agility, compliance, devops, efficiency, employee, it, last-mile, Productivity, security, tools, user rights managementChances are that your company is embracing DevOps to make sure you can get fresh, new digital capabilities to your customers ASAP. That’s because in today’s market, you either have to be ...
REP SPOTLIGHT: getITright
Jayne Groll | | Africa, agile, Australia, collaboration, Consulting, devops, devops culture, devops love, enterprise devops, getITright, itil, ITSM, lower risk, Productivity, Registered Education Partner, REP, The NetherlandsDevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization. getITright: With offices in Australia, South Africa, The Netherlands, Nigeria and Malta and a network of partners operating in 31 countries, we offer ...
The Art of DevOps
Sanjeev Sharma | | culture, devops culture, devops process, ibm, Productivity, trust, variable speed it, variable-speed DevOpsThis is the third in a series of posts on DevOps. The first written by my colleague Lee Reid was titled The Simple Math of DevOps. The second The Calculus of DevOps ...
