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Measuring and managing technical debt with DevOps

CircleCI

It is essential to examine the causes of technical debt to see how a DevOps process can help. There are two primary sources of technical debt: Business requirements including time pressure and changing conditions. Some debt may also come from insufficient support from the business to address technical debt itself.

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Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Since educating is in my blood, my party answer to “What is a ScrumMaster?” Servant Leadership: prioritizing the needs of the team and helping others to perform as highly as possible. At any moment, different people on the team can step up and provide technical leadership. This is called Shared Leadership.

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Why give a conference talk (or, why give a Postgres talk)

The Citus Data

After all, it’s a community of people who donate the “fuel” for the Postgres flywheel, it’s people who drive innovation, raise awareness, educate, and perhaps most importantly who welcome newcomers of all shapes and stripes. Online videos of your talk can help people around the globe.

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

UruIT

Keynote speakers include Gregor Hohpe, technical director in Google Cloud’s office of the CTO; Matt Stine, global CTO for architecture at Pivotal and host of the podcast Software Architecture Radio ; Trisha Gee, developer advocate at JetBrains; and several other experts in the field. These immersive courses run for two full days, 9:00 a.m.

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Three parts to the mission

Marcus Blankenship - Daily Writing

Mission: Evangelize, educate, and empower engineering leaders. We’ll create books, workshops, training programs, tools, frameworks, programs, and processes to teach the core tenants of excellent technical leadership. This week I’ve been wordsmithing a vision and mission and wanted to share a working draft with you.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

As Jez Humble said in a Velocity Conference training session, “Metrics should be painful: metrics should be able to make you change what you’re doing.” Lack of clarity about metrics is technical debt worth paying down. Augmenting AI Product Management with Technical Leadership. Don’t expect agreement to come simply.

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