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Avoid Lean Product Management Shock
When you’re doing lean product management, you often change the original requirements. Most management types don’t like this, and you get in trouble. Here’s two things to do to fix that.
What’s the difference between “solution” and “product” tech marketing?
Yes, this is the “people want to buy holes, not drills” thing applied to enterprise software.
Is DevSecOps a Thing…? Or, What is DevSecOps?
This is a 10 minute overview of what I think DevSecOps is, has become, etc. It was originally for an IDC Nordic conference.
Platform Engineering Needs Marketing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beT4umjUAA4&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=1 Building an internal developer platform and standing up a platform engineering practice isn’t enough. You also need to do some serious marketing! Check out VMware’s app dev stack toolkit for building out your platform, the Tanzu Application Platform. When I talk with people about build their app dev platform (PaaS, whatever you’re building on-top …
One quick way to find developer toil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkrHwSPVxTo Trying to improve how your organization does software? If you don’t know where to start, start looking for developer toil. Here’s one type: simple onboarding. Check out a systematic way to find more and speed up here. Here is the transcript: Let’s talk about developer toil. If you’re looking to improve the way that …
Working Leftward – Make Sure You Have a Cloud First
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm0O7dpuctg When You Build an Awesome App Pipeline that goes Nowhere. If you have nowhere, click here to get a somewhere. Here is the transcript: Before you start building your pipeline, your secure software, supply chain, your CI/CD thing, whatever you’re using to frequently deploy your apps to production, you should work backwards from where …
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Make sure you’re actually doing CI/CD
https://youtu.be/yEEwTPOpSk8 Here is the transcript: Can you release your software daily? Probably not. How about monthly maybe, but if you’re like most organizations, depending on which surveys you look like, it takes most people three months or more to release software. For example, in this Forrester one, you can see that most people are releasing …
Urgency is the best path to change
https://youtu.be/U6kTjxB32vg Find more cute babies and nerd-talk in the Tanzu Talk playlist. Here is the transcript: People don’t want to change Most people don’t want to change. And why would they? Everything they’ve done to this point has been successful. Individuals are really looking to keep what they have stable. So when you’re going in …
Big Americans Pizza, from Dr. Oetker – How to Eat
Asking “why” all the time is annoying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXaXgZ0EzcE&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=1 Most of the time, asking “why” is annoying. Here’s when it’s a good idea. Book those free office hours!
Tanzu Talk: where did the ‘dev’ in DevOps go? Was it ever there?
I theorize about what the “dev” in DevOps has come to mean 15(?) years in. Here is the transcript: On October 4th, we have a great DevOps conference coming up, DevOps Loop. You can go to DevOpsLoop.io to attend for free. What we’ve been focusing on when we’re putting this agenda together is discussing what …
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The tiny video toolkit
People ask me how I do the tiny videos. I hope to do a screencast at some point, but in the meantime, here are some notes: Video recording – I record them on my iPhone 11 Pro, I have Rode Wireless Go mics with a lav mic (these hook directly into the iPhone so the …
Getting more eyeballs for your boring-ass enterprise tech videos – analysis and LIFE HACKS from four months of long and tiny b2b videos by channel and numbers
Looking at four months of numbers, here’s my theories of how to get more attention for my enterprise tech videos: Make short ones, each with one point – 1 minute to 10 minutes. Post the videos natively to Twitter, YouTube, or whatever channel – don’t rely on people clicking on YouTube. YouTube is, in general, …