Story of a reborn AI developer
I have always had an urge to code, even when my role did not need it. From simple VBA automation for Execl to php based simple query page, I have been curious about creating some short cuts to help me be productive. When the GenAI tools started getting capabilities to create some amazing stuff, I […]
DevOps Primer
Primer giving a quick and condensed view of DevOps Principles, Values, Tools and Practices.
Basics of DevOps and 3 Reflections from State of DevOps 2020 Report
Last week has been a series of big releases as far as the Agile world goes. We got the new SCRUM guide, 2020 State of DevOps Report from Puppet and Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2020. While I was going through all of them like a Kid in the candy store, trying to understand the differences from last year. My keen […]
Chow #223 – Dilemma of an Engg Manager on Infrastructure Automation
Ram Khemani is the engineering manager in the enterprise finance team. They have been part of a huge data lake migration for the last 12 months. Last month, they have completed a huge release that was committed by executive leadership to migrate the modules of ledger and revenue management to the new platform. During this […]
Test automation – mindset or science?
Results from a case study and business outcome from the test automation One of the teams that I have coached had an outstanding journey in the last few years. The salient parts of this product team (Planner) is that they have been consistent in having investment towards regression and functional automation, creating opportunities to increase […]
CHOW #198 – How do you setup your Cloud Reliability Team?
Santa is the scrum master for the DevOps team. She just took over as a scrum master and found the team highly functioning. They are working on many initiatives going as well as keeping up with the plethora of service requests that are coming their way. Santhosh is the Product lead for DevOps and he […]
Chow #180 – Does Scrum work well with DevOps
How can DevOps team work in Scrum
CHOW #173 – Resistance to DevOps team – how to overcome it?
Ashok has been hired as an DevOps consultant to implement DevOps practices. He did an assessment of the team to understand the current practices and ways of working. After that, he proposed to the leadership team and product teams to have development team, QA team and Operations team as a single unit to break down […]
Minimum Viable DevOps
There seems to be a growing misinterpretation of DevOps. When we hear the word DevOps, the first thing that comes to our mind is automation; continuous deployment, continuous build, and associated toolsets or we think of development and operations teams sitting together. Even when we search DevOps in google, you can get results such as […]
Design Thinking – What it is and how to start using it (contd)…
An advantage of considering Design Thinking as an Innovation LEVER is that it clarifies what Design Thinking actually is – and what it is not. Design Thinking provides a structure – for individuals and teams to look closely at challenges, understand the problem before moving to create a solution. Hence, practising Design Thinking will also […]