Slicing your architecture without slicing your fingers

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You know those good old-fashioned mandolin slicers (yes I had to look that term up)?

Root causes are for cowards

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“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H.L. Mencken

Jira, the Swiss army chainsaw

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Do you use Jira in your organisation? Or are you considering it?

On terible silos and not terrrible ones

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I’d like to write about organisation today.

It’s all the rage these days to complain about silos. Silos are bad, people say, they’re the old way of doing things.

The third way

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Fine, so you’ve taken steps to use Gene Kim’s First and Second Way.

DevOps adoption: the second step

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Yesterday, we talked about the first step of introducing DevOps. But we’re just getting started on this journey.