by Stephen Kuenzli | Aug 26, 2019 | DevOps, Systems
Reading time: 90 seconds In QualiMente’s Secure Cloud team retrospective on Friday, we identified a couple of improvement actions: Improvement Actions from Friday’s Retrospective For context, we are several weeks into building a new service called k9 that... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Aug 23, 2019 | Systems
Riding the rollercoaster, Charlotte Coneybeer Reading Time: 5 minutes Retrospectives are a tool that can provide a primary data gathering mechanism for a team’s health and delivery process and are performed at the completion of an iteration of work. The purpose... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Aug 19, 2019 | DevOps, Systems
Tophat: I’m back 🙂 I love control systems. I really love ‘feedback loops,’ which are probably the most popular form of process control systems in our daily lives. The feedback loop is a very common tool for controlling and improving the operation of... by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 24, 2019 | Strategy, Systems
Reading time: 3.5 minutes Are there any ‘silver bullets’ in software development? Fred Brooks led the IBM’s System/360 development effort and recounted that delivery story and strategies in The Mythical Man-Month (brilliant) said: “There is no... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 19, 2019 | DevOps, Secrets, Security, Strategy
Thar be Dragons in Application Secret Delivery Processes I am pleased to share the 2019 State of Application Secret Delivery and Audit Practices report with you. As you may recall, I have been investigating DevOps Practitioners’ processes for delivering secrets to... 