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DevOps and Change Management
In “The Phoenix Project”, the character Erik introduces the underpinning principles of DevOps as “The Three Ways”. Let’s talk about the First and Third Ways and how change management works with DevOps, but first let’s spend a few minutes talking about baseball caps. Last weekend I was looking for my Atlanta Brave’s baseball cap and […]
May 1, 2014 · 3 minAll articles by Scott Rogers
Showing 1–3Systems of Things
What do Chevy V8s and DevOps have in common? They’re both complex systems with many interactions between their moving parts. The first time I did minor surgery on a Chevy engine I learned a lot about systems. The engine was a tired 283 cubic inch V8 in a 1966 Chevy Malibu which my grandfather purchased new […]
DevOps and The Goal
Reading, “The Goal” was a pivotal event in my career. More than a decade ago a friend of mine who was an operations professor at Georgia Tech told me it was his favorite book. We were discussing the challenges of getting work done in a corporate environment. I was grumbling about leading a web dev […]