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Inspired by a comment from Anders Bruvik, I asked ChatGPT 4o to write some song lyrics about the dreaded re-org and include some Team Topologies ideas: Please write song lyrics that are similar to the lyrics of the song Rehab by Amy Winehouse but are instead focused on avoiding a reorg . Include some concepts from Continue reading They tried to make me do a reorg, but I said no, no, no
I was recently asked by someone at a customer organization for some tips on how to write a talk about Team Topologies [TT] (she was Head of Information Security, but this article applies to almost any role). This post summarizes my suggestions for how to write a talk about TT for your own organization and/or Continue reading How to write a talk about Team Topologies
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I've been using deployment pipelines since 2011 starting with GoCD and then other tools. A few months ago, I joined DevOps experts Helen Beal of Ranger4, and Sam Fell Anders Wallgren of Electric Cloud to discuss deployment pipelines for modern software delivery as part of the Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) series (episode 88).
Round-table discussions can be a really useful way to discover and share direct experience with peers and colleagues. A good round-table discussion is quietly facilitated by someone who knows the subject matter enough to include interesting questions and can ensure that everyone has a voice. Here is what I have learnt from facilitating round-table discussions Continue reading Tips for facilitating…
During 2018 I was Engineering Lead for Immigration Technology, part of the UK Home Office Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) area (contract). I helped to introduce practices from Continuous Delivery: As part of a drive with DDaT to adopt proven nimble approaches to software delivery, the Immigration Technology portfolio has moved towards Continuous Delivery practices Continue reading Moving…
I founded and helped to run the first PIPELINE Conference in 2014 and I have been part of the team that has run 5 of these events to date. Here are my thoughts on how to run a good tech conference based on my experience with PIPELINE and with other events I have attended and spoken Continue reading How to run a good tech conference
I have been helping to promote greater diversity in tech conferences and tech meetups since 2012. Here is my thinking on how to promote diversity in tech events and why I think diversity is important. Update: please first read this post from Trisha Gee: What Can Conferences Do To Attract More Women Speakers? and then this post Continue reading Diversity in tech conferences and meetups how and why
Key points: Set up the organisation to ‘sense’ its environment Treat internal teams (almost) as external providers Conway s Law should shape our organisation design Promise Theory is a useful approach to organisational agility I have been doing quite a bit of work recently with various organisations to help them develop new capabilities for building and Continue reading Designing organisations for…
Summary: many people confuse continuous deployment (pushing changes to live systems many times per day) with Continuous Delivery (reliable software releases through build, test, and deployment automation). Here is why I think that Continuous Delivery is the more fundamental practice. (Update 1, 2017-11-02: clarified continuous deployment and the on-premises context) I work with many organisations…