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Mapping for a Marketing Team Triple Win

Mapping for a Marketing Team Triple Win

I worked with the Marketing team this week. They were struggling with how to publish content faster and more frequently. Everyone on the team acknowledged cycle time was too long and that downstream customers were unhappy about it. So – I helped the team map out their content publishing process to see where the problems lay. Everyone involved with content wrote specific activities they did (one per post-it note) and brought it up to the whiteboard. We watched as eight…

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Top 10 highlights from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015

Top 10 highlights from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015

The DevOps Enterprise Summit once again exceeded my expectations. Swarming with witty smart people (who were also fun to hang with), an impressive hallway track emerged.  Much learning transpired – below are my highlights in the order they occurred. A dedicated Dojo space for Learning Heather Mickman and Ross Clanton’s talk described Target’s large dedicated physical space for learning.  Three kinds of learning opportunities occur in Target’s Dojo: Challenges: 30 day experiences to introduce and level up expertise on DevOps,…

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Yesh, But What Do you Do?

Yesh, But What Do you Do?

I did software configuration management for most of my career. I did builds and deployments and managed source code trees. I built out and maintained development, test and staging environments. My friends and family never really understood what I did for a living. But they knew from experience that if a release was happening that weekend, they might not see me until Monday morning. If The Phoenix Project had been around then, I could have just given them the book.  It’s a novel…

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