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7 Key Lessons for Agile Leaders from McChrystal’s Team of Teams Book

Vitality Chicago

Recently a fellow Agile Coach recommended General Stanley McChrystal’s Team of Teams book to me. I thought it was going to be all about the military but McChrystal has instead written a leadership book that describes how to create true agility even in a large organization. It is a great book with many lessons for Agile Leaders !

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How to Become a Site Reliability Engineer

Cprime

Systems and application monitoring. Benjamin Treynor (now Benjamin Treynor Sloss) introduced the concept of the site reliability engineer back in 2002. Site reliability engineers must monitor all components of the product or system. Skill 5: Using Monitoring Tools. Systems performance. Incident and outage management.

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12 Cloud Computing Risks & Challenges Businesses Are Facing In These Days

Data Pine

To this end companies are turning to DevOps tools, like Chef and Puppet, to perform tasks like monitoring usage patterns of resources and automated backups at predefined time periods. With an inherent lack of control that comes with cloud computing, companies may run into real-time monitoring problems. Governance/Control.

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Defensive Programming Grows Up

Leading Agile

In a 2002 piece entitled The Law of Leaky Abstractions , Joel Spolsky observed that abstractions over any implementation can leak details of that implementation. There’s a desire for rapid delivery. ” This generally results in more bugs delivered in less time. Nothing, however, gives us a guarantee of correctness.

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What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

Leading Agile

Monitoring production systems to detect common and predictable problems. observability, to support automated production system monitoring and recovery. ” They asked me how they could streamline the workflow and move to a more “agile” delivery cadence. Provisioning and configuring environments.

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SOX Compliance Guide

Insight Software

We’ve created a comprehensive guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, also known as the SOX Act, to help you understand what’s in the act and why it’s important for your organization to have strong access controls and SOX compliant practices. Implement internal controls to monitor access to data. What is SOX Compliance?