“ISOOOO thought that was finished months ago” or “ISOOOO don’t have time for that” This used to be the general reaction when I would tell people that I need their help in managing our ISO27001 processes and procedures ready for an audit. Now that’s all changed. It might not be cutting-edge DevOps engineering techniques or the […]
Read MoreWe’ve all been to our fair share of soul-crushing meetings. We need to make a stand to stop these from happening! Below I’ve created a list of 9 Top Tips to make every meeting effective, I’m a firm believer in getting the best out of every meeting and making them as productive as possible! 1. […]
Read MoreOur CEO James Smith talks to Business Cloud about revolutionising employee happiness while they revolutionise tech. The original report was written by Katherine Lofthouse and can be found here. Cardiff-based IT development and operations expert DevOpsGuys are on a mission to be a £100m turnover business within the next five years. While this might sound like […]
Read MoreI have realised that people still struggle to find differences between Ansible and Puppet. As more of a Puppet person myself, when I had to switch entirely from using Puppet to Ansible within my role, I found that sometimes I started to favour Ansible over Puppet. In this blog I’ll explain the pros and cons […]
Read MoreI think we’ve all been there in a workplace at some stage in our career. It’s 4pm and somebody is packing up their stuff and going home because of a family commitment and as they leave a colleague loudly tuts and under their breath mutters ‘they’re off early again’. For me, this typifies the difference […]
Read MoreOne Google search on ‘skill shortage in the IT industry’ brings up almost 2.5million results (yes, I did it). There’s a lot of opinion on why there is such a shortage in our industry, one area that is mentioned frequently is introducing coding into the curriculum in the early years, which is great to see […]
Read MoreOur approach for new technical client engagements is to initially perform a Pipeline Assessment. This is a short phase in which we understand technological challenges, explore automation related constraints and establish the needs of the software delivery pipeline(s). During the Pipeline Assessment we run onsite workshops over three consecutive days with a focus on the […]
Read MoreA lot has been written in DevOps circles about the extraordinary feats that have been achieved by the so-called DevOps Unicorns. More recently the term has been co-opted by the mainstream as short-hand for why DevOps won’t work here – technological NIMBYism if you like! In a recent post we talked about ‘how software has […]
Read MoreBack in 2011, in his now infamous Wall Street Journal article, Marc Andreessen claimed that “Software was eating the world”. The claim that “every company is becoming a software company”, quoted countless times in the intervening years, appears to have fallen on deaf ears in a number of industries. 2017 may be the year to […]
Read MoreRupert one of our DevOps Delivery Managers attended Agile in the City Bristol, a conference that typically attracts industry practitioners who want to improve their success with agile and lean methods. Here’s 5 key learning points Rupert took away from his three days at the conference: 1. Use data analytics in lean and agile ecosystems: […]
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