I just read Walking Skeletons, Delivery Pipelines & DevOps Drills and came to the paragraph about “throwing s.th over the wall:
DevOps – the marriage of software development and operations – means that the team writing the solution code also handles these matters. We don’t throw it over the wall to a separate “DevOps” team.
In the past years I’ve been driving the DevOPS culture and work style. And I just had to smile when I read the article because I can so feel it!
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In business, it’s trust. Aki Kärkkäinen’s piece “From Rope Teams to Remote Teams” asks the real question: would you trust your team enough to share a rope?
I really liked this paragraph: “I’m reminded of the pandemic when social distancing was introduced—an unfortunate term, because what was meant was actually physical distancing. Most companies obsess over physical proximity when the real challenge is connection distance.”
And further on, Aki also draws the line to AI tooling. Give it a read!
(Well okay, and I liked the parallels of teamwork and hiking ;-))
Oh and I just noticed that Aki is on Mastodon as well: @akikoo@mastodon.social!
For a while, I kept asking myself: What’s my technical profile, really?
I’m not a specialist in one narrow field. But I go deeper in several areas than a typical generalist. So … is that good or bad? Is that a strength – or a flaw, because I’m not “deep enough” in one single thing?
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