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Delivering value: engineers and the end user 14 Jan 2013 | 12:17 am
When I started following along the devops movement often times the phrase “delivering value” would appear in conversation. That made me ponder even harder on a question that had haunted me for quite a...
Adventure Lab, part 4: 5 lessons learned on customer development 6 Jun 2012 | 12:06 pm
The Four Steps to the Epiphany book has dramatically contributed to shape what today is known as the Lean Startup movement. One of the fundamental concepts illustrated in the book is the idea of custo...
The problems with devops in a job title 29 May 2012 | 09:58 pm
Have you recently changed your job title to include the word devops in it? What were you reasons? Has it given the results you hoped for? It’s been a while since I posted about why devops makes sense ...
Adventure Lab, part 3: 5 lessons learned on brainstorming 8 May 2012 | 08:16 am
With teams formed and pressing ahead with the first assignment one of the first tasks on the list is idea generation. I'm sure some folks came to the course with a great idea, but what if you could in...
AdVenturersLab no more. Long live The Adventure Lab 27 Apr 2012 | 08:40 pm
New teams are being formed in sight of the real beginning of the course next week and as I bid farewell to my old group I'm excited to join some awesome people in The Adventure Lab. This series has ju...
AdventurersLab, part 2: 5 top tools for collaboration 25 Apr 2012 | 08:18 am
Team collaboration has been pivotal to the success of the project and with a lot of remote and distributed teams is worth to take a look at the tooling that made that collaboration possible. Read on t...
AdventurersLab, part 1: 5 lessons on team building 18 Apr 2012 | 09:56 am
The first two weeks of the Venture Lab course centered around team building. This makes sense as people form groups in preparation for the real start next week. The teams were initially formed by rand...
AdventurersLab: documenting the Stanford Entrepreneurship course 11 Apr 2012 | 02:22 am
Last year a spur of online courses was announced among which featured the Technology Entrepreneurship course offered by the Stanford University. I jumped on this as soon as I found out about it and st...
I’m not a rabid chef user, but I still love devops 31 Mar 2012 | 09:35 pm
It’s been a couple heated weeks on the devops front. In part due, again, to the NoOps debacle (see Cockcroft’s post and Allspaw’s reply) and for the other part due to this statement: [The devops list ...
Devops will steal your job. Or not. 14 Mar 2012 | 09:33 am
It must have been at least five years ago, when puppet was getting popular, that I first ran into someone terrified of losing his job because of automation. I even wonder if the same happened before w...
