Effective delegation is an important skill in both leadership and management. However, an important element of doing so is assessing each task being delegated and…
5 Tips to Delegate Appropriately
Delegating is a skill that can be a very important part of your role, or it can simply be useful when you need help. Regardless,…
3 Reasons to Get Better at Delegating
The growth and success of your business, not to mention your health and happiness, depends to a great extent on your ability to delegate effectively…
Effective Delegation Management Skills – Attention to Detail
Project management is a basic management skill. The very essence of effective delegation and project execution is based on this focus. It is a core…
Becoming an Effective Manager
Many successful people get promoted into management and quickly find the pressure to be higher than anything they felt in the past. As an individual…
Kanban vs Scrum vs Agile
When inflexible and wasteful software development processes are making your organization inefficient, it’s time to introduce an agile methodology. Kanban vs Scrum then becomes an…
Six Ways Ansible Makes Docker-Compose Better
Containers are popular for many reasons. One key reason: container images are easy to build and, once built, don’t change. When Developer A says, “Hey,…
Integrating Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines with Ansible Tower
Customers everywhere are using Ansible and Ansible Tower to deliver the promise of DevOps. Atlassian Bitbucket can be coupled with Ansible and Ansible Tower to…
29 questions to ask yourself if you’re in devops
A few days ago, I had an opportunity to meet and interact with a few friends, who works as a devops within Mozilla. We had…
How Ansible Works
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Being designed…
Highly – Available Infrastructure Provisioning and Configuration with Ansible
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 8 of Ansible for DevOps, a book on Ansible by Jeff Geerling. The example highlights Ansible’s simplicity and…
Creating custom dynamic inventories for Ansible
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of Ansible for DevOps, a book on Ansible by Jeff Geerling. Most infrastructure can be managed with…
Automating Your Automation with Ansible Tower
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of Ansible for DevOps, a book on Ansible by Jeff Geerling. The example highlights the effectiveness of…
Soul Searching
Life for me has been a soul-searching journey Only without a map And through the years I have come to see That some people will…
What Is a DevOps Engineer?
DevOps can boost overall organizational performance, and depends strongly on IT leadership for success. Read all about the state of DevOps today in the 2015…