Doing DevOps

What's the biggest news from the last few weeks? ​Probably the rumbling debate about "what is open source"? This follows from the decision by Hashicorp to take their open source tools towards a Business Source License (as reported in The Register), which has implications for using these 'free'...

It's summer season, and I hope you get to go on holiday and enjoy a few well-deserved days away in a relaxing environment. As I write this, I'm starting to wrap up my work before the summer break. I'm waiting to board a flight to Berlin for the We Are Developers World Congress '23, where I'll...

Do you have or know of a 'failing team'? How is this characterised? Is it: Too slow to deliver features Always distracted by production problems High turnover of staff – particularly domain experts or leads or anyone who has been there “too long” Unable to refactor or redesign due to continuous...

In a recent blog post, I discussed Testing for Microservices, something close to my heart currently. I'm currently finding out first-hand, how often we get persuaded that the thing we're currently doing is the only way we can do that thing. It pays dividends to stop what you're doing and look...

Firstly some news - you might have noticed that the frequency of this newsletter is no longer actually weekly. Due to my current workload, I have less time to write and record things and this newsletter has also suffered. Apologies to my recent subscribers for this but life gets in the way...

This is Rule #1 of the Agile Manifesto. In 2023, do we really value individuals and interactions over processes and tools? I think for the most part, we still don't, however we still should try. Why? Read on... This statement says that we should still value processes and tools - but not as highly...

I've been following a recent twitter spat between Dave Snowden (Cynefin) and ​Niels Plaeging (BetaCodex) with a rising sense of alarm and disappointment. They are both experts in the field of complexity science which chiefly occupies itself with trying to explain why in business, management is so...

We do not know the meaning of a concept unless we have a method of measurement for it." - The Logic of Modern Physics 1927 - Percy Williams Bridgman It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth.” - W. Edwards Deming W. Edwards Deming is known as the...