Articles tagged with learning
Mastering the Art of Prompting: Unlocking Insights from the WorkSafeBC Technical Blog
By structuring an effective prompt, we can transform this raw blog into a meaningful and inspiring summary.
Journal 8 - What is the value?
The real question is not about the tech-cool factor or simplicity; it is all about uncovering the true value.
Working Agreement for Technical Event Speakers
Tips and tricks for preparing as a technical event speaker, from preparing your message to engaging your audience effectively.
Agile Planning with Azure DevOps
Recalling the recent agile planning session hosted by common engineering during the +1 innovation and planning iteration.
DevOps Vancouver Meetup Learnings
Insights gained from hosting six community meetups this year: the positives, negatives, and challenges.
Artificial Intelligence - AI-900 - Quick Reference Poster
A consolidated poster / cheat sheet of my AI-900 study notes.
Artificial Intelligence - AI-900 - Guiding Principles
"Guiding principles aim to ensure responsible and ethical AI development and deployment." - ChatGPT GPT-4o
Artificial Intelligence - AI-900 - Bots
Conversational AI workloads - no longer part of AI-900 certification!
Artificial Intelligence - AI-900 - Common Machine Learning Types
"AI machine learning (ML) refers to the subset of artificial intelligence focused on developing algorithms and models that enable computers to learn from data and improve their performance over time without being explicitly programmed." - ChatGPT GPT-4o
Artificial Intelligence - AI-900 - Common Workloads
"Common workloads in AI and machine learning include data processing, model training, inference, natural language processing, computer vision, recommendation systems, time series forecasting, and robotics/automation tasks." - ChatGPT GPT-4o
Artificial Intelligence - AI-900 - Generative AI
"Generative AI refers to a subset of artificial intelligence that creates new content—such as text, images, audio, or video." - ChatGPT GPT-4o
Artificial Intelligence - AI-900 - Natural Language Processing
"Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of AI that enables computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language." - ChatGPT GPT-4o
Artificial Intelligence - AI-900 - Vision Workloads
"Vision workloads in AI refer to tasks that involve processing and analyzing visual data, such as images and videos." - ChatGPT GPT-4o
Unproductive Communication - The Silent Productivity Killer That Drives Me Crazy
Stop the context-less "hi, hello, ping, pong, ..."
Automate Azure DevOps work item state transitions like a Pro
Maintain your backlog by changing the status of work items according to the status of their subitems.
Decoding the Acronyms: MMP vs. MVP vs. POC
MMP, MVP, and POC: Understanding Their Differences and Choosing the Right Approach
Back to Basics: WIP Limit
Dealing with a Kanban Board meltdown, by controlling the work in progress.
Back to Basics: Batch Size
Balancing noise and agility with smaller batch sizes.
Shift from project to product thinking
The problem is not with projects but with project-focused thinking
Fail, Learn, Reset, Transform!
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
Communication Guidance Sideways (Part 2)
"Not to be missed after you depart." - L.David Marquet
Communication Guidance Upwards
Before you ask for anything, get clarity on the five WHYs!
What about ChatGPT?
A question that made me speechless at a recent Navigating the Future event.
Fail, Learn, Reset!
"Failure is a good option. If you are not failing, you are not trying hard enough." - Elon Musk
Servant stewardship of guardrails
You can chose between governance, policies, or standards, or collaborate with us through guardrails.
Positive energy goes a long way to encourage innovation
"Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors." - Elon Musk
Automation and the great unknown
Inadvertently restricting access to thousands of pipelines with a simple automated task group insertion.
Automation Mayhem and Angst is normal
Doing a manual and mind-numbing task twice or more? Automate!
The WHY, HOW, and WHAT of our technical blog
Creating a demo pull request and post for our technical blog demo.
DevOps Analytics Strategy
Objective, Method and Maturity model for business analytics across an enterprise.
Understanding key metrics for a healthy DevOps mindset
Without real-time evidence, OODA never comes to life.
Journal 3 - Explore the trajectory of our Common Engineering (Ce) ecosystem
Looking at our common engineering team through the management (leader) lens
When should we automate tests
This article is gist of brainstorming session among Quality Assurance (QA) team.
Exploring the concept of mob-ownership
We succeed or fail as a team (mob), not as individuals!
Journal 2 - Why do we need our common engineering team?
Introducing the voice of reason and stewards of guardrails
Journal 1 - What is origin of our common engineering team?
Learning about the genesis of our EDO Common Engineering (EDO Ce) team
Quality of Design
Adopt design principles to ensure highest quality of the code design
Don’t become an Expert Beginner
How to avoid the trap of getting stuck in an Expert Beginner role
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.
Track work with POPCORN Flow
Work challenges are opportunities to explore, experiment, and track the feedback gathered from the innovation
Systems thinking
Switch focus from monitoring and measuring activities and outputs to measuring outcomes
First International TDD Conference
First International TDD Conference generated a lot of good interest and traction
Refactoring saves time and increases quality
Design is not a static construct, it evolves by refactoring as we keep changing the code
OODA Loop and DevOps
What is the relationship between Observe-Orient-Decide-Act Loop and DevOps.
Stop the context switching, reduce waste, and focus on value
A work-life balance is important, however, I believe that stopping waste and focusing on value is just as pivotal!
TDD for Non-Techies
TDD explained to non programmers by using the example of writing a short story
Lunch & Learn - Revisiting Feature Flags
Manage your blast radius through progressive exposure with feature flags
Introducing the Automation Working Group
Any system operation we can perform manually can be fully automated by writing scripts