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If they’re not seeing it, it does not exist

This long hiatus on the blog will allow me to pick up this old draft and introduce this idea in a very organic way. If we take a look at the activity on these articles, one might think that I

Álvaro G. Cachón December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Business Culture No Comments

Starting a community in your workplace

You may not be familiar with the concept “community of practice”, (CoP from now on) so let me start this entry by giving a short overview. Essentially, we will be talking about a group of people with a trade or

Álvaro G. Cachón July 28, 2017 Business Culture 1 Comment

Dealing with distractions as a DevOps

Being a transverse department, every DevOps must learn how to deal with issues. It’s a common pitfall that, embracing the agile philosophy, the team ends up accepting that word of mouth is a tolerable method to track or inform problems.

Álvaro G. Cachón March 30, 2017 Business Culture No Comments

Culture change does not happen overnight

One of a development’s department most critical endeavours is Change Management. Even in a technological environment, people tend to use those tools and methodologies that they are more comfortable with. Stepping into the unknown throws your workers off-balance, affects their

Álvaro G. Cachón February 20, 2017 Business Culture No Comments

The problems of legacy systems

Many companies do not understand that they actually are “technological companies”. The fact that their “product” (meaning whatever item or service they base their business on) is not directly tied to software development weights so heavily in their mindset that

Álvaro G. Cachón February 3, 2017February 6, 2017 Business Culture, User experience No Comments

Define a valid Rollback strategy

How do you deal with broken builds? Applying methods like Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery usually make the lower development environments (usually tagged “integration” and “UAT”) unstable. As several teams merge their changes to the software, the end-to-end tests might

Álvaro G. Cachón December 12, 2016 Business Culture, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration No Comments

How to recruit a DevOps

In my blog I usually talk on technology on a “management” level. My aim was trying to explain technical concepts without the “technical” part. Why should any company invest money in something, unless they understand fully what are the benefits

Álvaro G. Cachón October 31, 2016 Business Culture, Recruiting No Comments

The benefits of automated testing

Read carefully this statement: If your development pipeline does not include any degree of automated testing, you are wasting money. Don’t lose your temper, breathe slowly… Now read that again. Yes: you are losing money. Testing is burning up your

Álvaro G. Cachón October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Business Culture, Continuous Integration, Testing No Comments

Is your team wasting too much time on meetings?

Stop me if you heard this one before: “agile has too many meetings“. This is the most common complaint for teams adopting scrum or other similar agile methods. Developers feel that they are wasting their time instead of “doing stuff”.

Álvaro G. Cachón September 19, 2016 Business Culture No Comments

No one reads the documentation – and that shouldn’t stop you

I could make a post with the perfect tone mix of “amusingly angry” and “cynical tech guy” on how no one ever reads the manual, but this is not about making a point on how clever “we” are versus how

Álvaro G. Cachón September 12, 2016 Business Culture, Software No Comments
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