Career Advice —15 min episode
Tiny DevOps episode #37 How can I best prepare for a job interview? And other DevOps career Q&A

In this episode, I tackle some questions from listeners, and provide my own answers to your DevOps Careers questions.

Agile Principles —1 min read
Who decides if a new feature is a good idea?

I believe I can predict with complete accuracy who makes this decision in your organization.

Hiring —2 min read
I've never fired anyone for technical incompetence

I've done a fair amount of hiring and firing over the years. But I've come to notice a disconnect.

Agile Principles —4 min read
Story Points means Relative Estimation, right? Not so fast.

Relative Estimation is possible in any unit, including time. And absolute estimation is also possible in any unit, including story points.

Software Delivery —1 min read
Continuous Integration doesn't work for mobile, because...

Actually, CI does work for mobile. But Continous Deployment may not.

Career Advice —43 min listen
Adventures in DevOps 108: 50 Shades of DevOps

Is your DevOps title “hip”? What does it mean? Does it matter?

Agile Principles —1 min read
There is no "I" in "Agile"

Agile software delivery is a team sport. The team succeeds or fails together.

Agile Principles —1 min read
Types of uncertainty

We face many causes or types of uncertainty when creating software. Here are a few.

Software Delivery —32 min episode
Tiny DevOps episode #36 Joy Ebertz — All About Feature Flags

Joy Ebertz is a Principal Software Engineer at Split. She focuses on the technical vision for the backend team, and she joins me today to talk about some of the obvious, as well as not so obvoius ways in which feature flags can be used on projects of any size.

Agile Principles —2 min read
Two modes of agile failure

I've heard both "Agile is only good for developers" and "Agile is only good for management". I think they're two modes of the same failure.

Agile Principles —2 min read
Book Review: A Radical Enterprise

I recommend this book by Matt Parker to anyone in leadership. You may not be able to implement everything, but without a doubt you can implement something to make your business more effective, and your employees more engaged.