Ten Years of DevOps, So What?
Thoughts from DevOps Days NYC 2020 and what we have learned Three years ago, I went to my first DevOpsDays event, and it is fair to say that it radically changed … Continue reading Ten Years of DevOps, So What?
Tag: Community
Community of Purpose
What a naval battle can tell us about building organizational trust Warfare has often been a useful lens to understand strategy. Battles are rarely won or lost based on numerical … Continue reading Community of Purpose
To Kill a Community
I wasn’t a reader growing up. By reading, I mean the books assigned in English Literature. It’s fair to say I was more an avid reader of Cliff Notes. If … Continue reading To Kill a Community
Making Remote Work Succeed
How are you preparing for the future of work? A few weeks ago Automattic, the company behind WordPress, announced a huge fund raise. Salesforce put $300 million into Automattic, taking their … Continue reading Making Remote Work Succeed
Motivation and Online Communities
Not everyone will participate, here’s how to build an engaged community When I moved to San Francisco early in my career to pursue my Dot Com 1.0 Internet millionaire dreams, … Continue reading Motivation and Online Communities
The Upside of Developer Events
The real benefit is connecting to the broader community of ideas A decade ago, I was attending an event every night of the week. Sometimes if I was super ambitious, I … Continue reading The Upside of Developer Events
The 90–9–1 Rule of Communities
The “rule” of online community participation is not so cut and dry Do you use Twitter? That question might depend on what you consider “using”? When Twitter started, I thought it … Continue reading The 90–9–1 Rule of Communities
DevOps Makes the Money
Most people don’t know I grew up in Brooklyn. Not the gentrified one with gourmet mayonnaise stores, but the one more reminiscent of James Buchanan High School. So when the … Continue reading DevOps Makes the Money
The DevRel Kerfluffle
I saw a meme some years ago about how people interpret customer requirement. None of the solutions quite match customer expectations: The “how the project was documented” gave me a … Continue reading The DevRel Kerfluffle
The Secret Sauce of Online Communities
Did you know that we have a site on Stack Exchange for cooking? It is called Seasoned Advice and it has convinced me to add salt to pasta water, helped … Continue reading The Secret Sauce of Online Communities
The Importance of Developer Communities
Isolation can do strange things to one’s mind. Just ask Chuck Noland, a super-efficient and high energy FedEx employee who survives a terrifying plane crash over the Pacific, only to … Continue reading The Importance of Developer Communities
A Kinder, Gentler Community
A couple of weeks ago an article asked the question, can a workplace be too nice? This seems somewhat outlandish to think given how often we hear complaints of workplace … Continue reading A Kinder, Gentler Community
