Tag: Lean
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The Hacker attitude
For many years, the following has been part of my LinkedIn profile: I subscribe to the Hacker attitude:1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.4. Freedom is good.5. Attitude is no substitute for competence. Eric S. Raymond…
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A basic understanding of DevOps
Just over a month ago, I wrote that DevOps is not another way to say cloud. I further argued that anyone who thinks the two are interchangeable certainly doesn’t understand the former (and probably not the latter, either). That, however, raises the question, What is DevOps? As you might guess from my last post on the…
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Peering into the crystal ball – or maybe throwing down the gauntlet?
Trying to predict the future is a mug’s game. But increasingly it’s a game we all have to play because the world is changing so fast and we need to have some sort of idea of what the future’s actually going to be like because we are going to have to live there, probably next…
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Kanban in an IT Operations setting
A while back, I participated in a discussion about the application of Kanban in an IT Operations setting. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter: I strongly believe there are three keywords to keep in mind when thinking about process design: Practicability – What is the learning curve for using the process? Repeatability – How well is…