Articles tagged with eliminate-waste
Stop the Confusing Language Madness in IT!
Using a common language in IT helps avoid misunderstandings, conserves time, and enhances teamwork.
Embedding a Quality-Driven Engineering Mindset in Our DNA
An engineering mindset that prioritizes quality is crucial for producing robust and reliable solutions.
What keeps us awake at night - Technical Debt
Empower engineering without compromising security
Azure Devops simplicity to rule them all
Keep Azure DevOps setup simple and avoid a lot of pain and waste!
Built-in Quality
Ensuring that our solutions meet quality guardrails and governance from ideation to deprecation.
Improving DORA metrics
We would like to plan how to track and empower engineering to increase deployment frequency, and reduce lead time for change, MTTR, and change failure rates.
WHY are we pushing consistency and standardization?
Balancing autonomy with consistency and standardization.
Stop the meeting overload!
My personal crusade to optimize meetings and associated WASTE
Make your pipeline badges more compact and meaningful
Tired of cluttering your dashboards with duplicated waste?
The problem with big batches
Improve the predictability of delivering business value by reducing the utilization rates
Make yourself interruptible
Adopt humble approach when creating software products by making yourself open to interruptions
DevOps value proposition
DevOps introduces simultaneous focus on expectations, architecture, design, testing, building, releasing, and running the system
How to minimize queueing
Adopt the humble approach to only work in smallest possible batches with limited work-in-progress
Exploring the concept of mob-ownership
We succeed or fail as a team (mob), not as individuals!
Streamlining your pipeline using the magic of YAML-base Azure Pipelines
Teleport to the future, to optimize the YAML-based Azure Pipeline approvals.
Streamlining your pipeline approvals, without flooding DevSecOps with noise
Back to the future, to optimize the Classic Azure Pipeline approvals.
Your old and trusted hammer is not always the right tool for the job
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” - Abraham Maslow 1966
Why I loathe when engineers use TLAs, such as CD vs CD!
The use of TLAs creates subpar collaboration, unnecessary confusion, and unintended waste.
Checkout your git repos at the right time!
Let us explore why the sequence of checkout steps are important in your Azure Pipeline.
Two ways to share your toolbox with your pipelines
Let us review two strategies to share scripts and config files with your Azure (YAML) Pipelines.
Systems thinking
Switch focus from monitoring and measuring activities and outputs to measuring outcomes
Automation enables engineering to focus on value
Asking yourself why you are performing a set of manual tasks again and again? If yes, automate!
Refactoring saves time and increases quality
Design is not a static construct, it evolves by refactoring as we keep changing the code