Takeaways From 2021 State of DevOps Why the State of DevOps is such a good report to read each year and what the takeaways are for 2021.
Book Review: Mindset by Carol Dweck I can usually tell by 15 pages in to a self-help book whether it’s going to resonate with me; usually, it’s not going to. I
Book Review: Invent and Wander (collected Jeff Bezos) Jeff Bezos built a company that’s worth about the same on the stock market ($1.67T) as the entire circulating supply of Pakistani Ruppees ($1.68T). That
Book Review: Promised Land by Barack Obama I rarely bother to post books I read for pleasure on the blog, but I thought that a lot of the people that I know
Book Review: Ahead in the Cloud by Stephen Orban I found a lot of great nuggets in this book, but I’m not sure I’d recommend it to everyone. If you’re trying to sell your
2021 New Years Resolutions 2020 was a year where I expected to just entrench and work on establishing myself at IBM. It was a really good year for that,
Book Review: Leading the Transformation by Gruver & Mouser If you’ve read much of Gene Kim’s work you’ve heard of the transformation that HP Printers made to their firmware development process. Kim cites it
Book Review: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work by Karen Martin I confess, Value Stream Mapping as a technique is something I already do with clients and I was reading this book mostly to make sure
Book Review: Unicorn Project I actually finished the Unicorn Project a couple weeks ago and didn’t take great notes on it, so this won’t be as extensive of a
Book Review: Prediction Machines If you’re going to be working in technology for more than 10 years, you should read this book. It’s written by a set of economists