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Jeffrey Sykes

Jeffrey Sykes

The Automation Snowball

One of the ongoing problems for those who work on production systems is what some Google calls “Toil.” Toil isn’t the work that some find…

May 25, 2018

The Automation Snowball

May 25, 2018

Jeffrey Sykes

Cultural Blockers: Yet another DevOps post on culture

Nothing has the ability to stop your adoption of DevOps like culture. Organizations seem to have personalities that develop as a part of…

May 9, 2018

Cultural Blockers: Yet another DevOps post on culture

May 9, 2018

Jeffrey Sykes

Managing Configuration

Many years ago, I was working on a project where a new version of a site was going to be launched. The site in question was rather large…

Apr 26, 2018

Managing Configuration

Apr 26, 2018

Jeffrey Sykes

Control, Responsibility, and Delegation in DevOps

Of the pitfalls that can derail DevOps efforts, perhaps nothing is as sticky as the related issues of control, responsibility and…

Apr 23, 2018

Control, Responsibility, and Delegation in DevOps

Apr 23, 2018

Jeffrey Sykes

Expanding your team to include people who are not in your department

DevOps is a team sport. DevOps isn’t any person’s job any more than quality is one person’s job. Any effort to change culture or add the…

Apr 19, 2018

Expanding your team to include people who are not in your department

Apr 19, 2018

Jeffrey Sykes

Standardizing how you deliver not what you deliver

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themself.”¹

Apr 18, 2018

Standardizing how you deliver not what you deliver

Apr 18, 2018

Jeffrey Sykes

DevOps starts with admitting you have a problem

Our DevOps journey didn’t begin as a top down initiative from an executive demanding “we need to buy DevOps.” Instead, it began as a means…

Apr 17, 2018

DevOps starts with admitting you have a problem

Apr 17, 2018

Jeffrey Sykes

DevOps in the Marketing Agency

The pace of contemporary marketing moves rapidly. Projects are expected to launch quickly; iterate rapidly and continually evolve…

Apr 16, 2018

DevOps in the Marketing Agency

Apr 16, 2018

Jeffrey Sykes

Jeffrey Sykes

Director of TechOps @VML; public school advocate following #ksleg, husband to @dinah_sykes, into #devops, #soccer, #sharks and #theology. Opinions are mine

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