The new buzz word in #prodMgmt is #prodOps. It’s a real thing. I want to share my views before it gets overly commoditized. ProdOps is short for Product Operations. But what does that actually mean? Is it some re-packaged and monetized mishmash of DevOps + MarTech + RevOps + SalesOps + Pragmatic Marketing? Is it…
Tag: DevOps
Tiny Features, In Release — yet another #prodMgmt parody song lyric
Yet another #prodMgmt song parody, this one inspired by both the practice of trunk-based development, and the song ‘Tiny Bubbles’ by Don Ho. And similar to other song parodies of mine, I sang the first verse of this as my own intro to my recent presentation on ‘Using Experimentation to Deliver Value at Supersonic…
A 33-year retrospective of DevOps-driven Continuous Integration & Delivery
Behold, a quasi-representative aggregation of events, ideas, & products contributing to the evolution of CI/CD over the past 33 years Behold, a quasi-representative aggregation of events, ideas, & products contributing to the evolution of Continuous Integration & Delivery over the past 33 years. WHY CI/CD? This is the second part of a three-part series which ends…
How to avoid a visit from your friendly neighborhood Technical Debt Collector
TL;DR — Everyone is fine with deferring technical debt, that is until ‘Tony from Support’ shows up w/a bug that breaks your app’s kneecaps. If mob movies were framed as software development, imagine how many story lines would read as follows … … Pamela the Product Owner, desirous of saving “Saint Jerome’s Home for Abandoned Bambinos” from foreclosure,…
How I spent a Memorial Day weekend chasing a mobile ghost
TL;DR — How I lost a 3 day weekend but won a stronger team overlooking an atomic feed write delivered to an early MVP served by an eager CDN. It’s been a few years, and a different place of employment, yet I remember the conversation and the events that followed as if it were yesterday … … it…
Software delivery is a lot like Pizza Delivery
TL;DR — How I pulled an F up to a B+ in grad school with only a pizza box, a prayer, and an assertion that customers don’t give a crap about ‘how’ apps are delivered. Let me tell you a story about how I almost failed grad school by failing to communicate how software delivery is a…