Tech Roadmap: Effort x Value provides a fast way to prioritise a list of items, by relatively comparing the effort to complete the item and how valuable it is
THE PRIORITY MATRIX – Using Time Effectively
The priority Matrix, also known as Eisenhower matrix, helps you decide on and prioritise tasks by urgency and importance, sorting out less urgent and important tasks which you should either delegate or not do at all. How to use the Matrix: • The Priority Matrix helps establish what order of priority you are going to give... Continue Reading →
The DevOps Transformation – Part 3 (and final)
The DevOps cargo cult manifests when by imitating some of the practices or structures of a more successful enterprise, misguided businesses might expect to gain some of the same rewards. But this is a recipe for failure
The DevOps Transformation – Part 2
Leading a large-scale DevOps transformation is not about adopting a new set of tools, attitudes, processes, and behaviours at the team level, it’s about helping your company or organisation deliver faster to market, and developing the ability to respond to a rapidly changing competitive landscape
The DevOps Transformation – Part 1
Leading a large-scale DevOps transformation is not about adopting a new set of tools, attitudes, processes, and behaviours at the team level, it’s about helping your company or organisation deliver faster to market, and developing the ability to respond to a rapidly changing competitive landscape
Agile & DevOps Journey
Agile and DevOps purpose is, first and foremost, to achieve business agility and enable businesses to reach their consumers faster with innovations and new offerings, enabled by tools and automation. By incorporating lean principles, bringing stakeholders closer and automating various steps in the process, the lifecycle is aligned to release continuously and with high quality.... Continue Reading →
Gitflow workflow for projects that have a scheduled release cycle
This is Draft post, WIP, I'm still writing it, EAT next sprint ahahha I had an interesting meeting with a US customer the other day... they've just transitioned all teams to a new gitflow workflow and they had some tough questions for me about that. However, the most interesting part was that many of my answers... Continue Reading →
Using AWS cloudwatch to shut down unused EC2 Instances
Hi there, Quick tip, you can use AWS CloudWatch alarms to detect and shut down unused EC2 instances automatically. I've done that to my instances. Also, that should help us to save a few $$$ . Overview - Creating Amazon CloudWatch Alarms You can create a CloudWatch alarm that watches a single metric. The alarm performs... Continue Reading →