Willy[-Peter] Schaub

My dream is to have one build definition, one build environment, and one build artifact that is deployed to multiple environments by shifting the configuration right.

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Shift LEFT and RIGHT to take yourself off the humbling 2AM calls

The 2AM wake up call is the best motivation for a production ready mindset.

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Why I dumped agent 77 @ the DevOps Victoria meetup

After a parody of hiccups I landed on the other side of the pond

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Poke the brain on a stick chat - with Mathew Mathai

The name of our chat series is based on my colleague Charles K's quote from the 90's, that he would like to have our brains on a stick for projects.

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Spoiler alert - a sneak peek at some of our DevOps quick poll trends

Here are a few sneak peaks into some of the quick poll trends.

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Feature Flag Manifesto mentioned at Vancouver meetup

We're calling the recommendations our FF Manifesto. It's the engineering friendly term for technical governance.

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Loved the DevOps Vancouver Meetup January 2019

Great sessions including Entropy in DevOps Teams, the Virtues of Being T-shaped, and Progressive Exposure Using Feature Flags:

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Poke the brain on a stick chat - with Brent Reed

The name of our poke-the-brain-on-a-stick series is based on my colleague Charles K's quote from the 90's. He always said that he would like to have our brains on a stick for projects.

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Is automation really needed for a healthy DevOps environment?

Is automation a lifeline and light in the darkness of manual repetition and the pressure to continuously produce and deliver value?

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Visualise work item dependencies in Azure DevOps ... or not

After teams have created a few dozen or even hundreds of dependencies it’s important to visualize them.

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Why don't we nurture our DevOps teams as professional sports teams do?

We often wonder why we do not build and nurture engineering teams the same way as professional sports teams - it's unusual to see a team that wins their league pack up and re-group with a new team in the new season.

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Poke the DevOps Hornet's nest supporting polls and articles

THANK YOU for helping us gather the facts from the real-world.

Can collaboration and context switching coexist?

An Agile mindset thrives on the benefits of collaboration, cross-functional teams that work jointly, and everyone involved in the project. Collaboration breaks down silos, promotes face-to-face communication, and builds trust.Feature teams get

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Poking the DevOps hornet’s nest!

Our journey is not about technology and products, which are volatile and well covered in product documentation and other books. Instead, our focus is on people and process, and to poke the DevOps hornet’s nest.

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Three simple things to make Azure {Kanban} Boards more effective

There are three simple ways you can make your Kanban board more valuable.

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Analyzing the DNA of DevOps

We have just published the fifth opensource article, titled Analyzing the DNA of DevOps

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PROJECT TO PRODUCT - Value Stream Networks

It is pivotal that our business leaders and technologists articulate a taxonomy, a common business language, and metrics to measure the holistic success criteria.

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PROJECT TO PRODUCT - Value Stream Metrics

Value Stream Management with the Flow Framework from Tasktop, with a focus on value stream metrics to track the flow of business value in our software development lifecycle .

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PROJECT TO PRODUCT - Value Stream Management with the Tasktop Flow Framework™

With every chapter I read, the significance of the PROJECT to PRODUCT book and flow framework appears.

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