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Summary

Bill and Coté discuss trying to explain DevOps, DevOps metrics, and the processes used by designers vs. software developers vs. management consultants vs. wedding planners. We also go over the recently US Digital Services Playbook, which looks pretty cool actually.

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Your friends @cote and @BillHiggins

DevOps, what is it?

IBM Design, Process

  • Bill now works in the IBM Design Group now.
  • What are “Design” people like? Ideation, post-it notes, user-centric thinking.
  • Three schools of process: software development, design, management consulting.

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