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Scrum for Operations: Order from Chaos

Welcome to the second installment in Scrum for Operations, a series where I talk about (and go through) the process of doing systems work as part of a DevOps team according to the Scrum methodology. Last time, I introduced the

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Scrum for Operations: What Is Scrum

Agile It’s not a mandatory part of DevOps, but I believe that DevOps works a lot better if operations teams adopt Agile.  But all that most systems teams know about Agile is that “it’s that thing that makes the development

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Our First DevOps Implementation

Although we’re currently engaged in a more radical agile infrastructure implementation, I thought I’d share our previous evolutionary DevOps implementation here (way before the term was coined, but in retrospect I think it hits a lot of the same notes)

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Enterprise Systems vs. Agility

I was recently reading a good Cameron Purdy post where he talks about his eight theses regarding why startups or students can pull stuff off that large enterprise IT shops can’t. My summary/trenchant restatement of his points: Changing existing systems

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OpsCamp Debrief

I went to OpsCamp this last weekend here in Austin, a get-togther for Web operations folks specifically focusing on the cloud, and it was a great time!  Here’s my after action report. The event invite said it was in the

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