@Glenswan, I'm sorry to hear of you're being recently laid off. I hope that you find new employment soon.

I'm ambivalent on this topic. I like what David Poole said, about buying a car and keeping it for 10 to 15 years vs. upgrading it every other year. I...

Thank you, Steve. 🙂

Great article, as always, Steve. How do you (or others) encourage coworkers to gain DevOps, automation, etc. skills to improve their jobs?

Rod, I'm not surprised that your large IT organization has this problem.  In my experience, the larger a group is, the harder it is to address debt.  (If it...

Technical debt is a topic I am very interested in. Where I work we have a large amount of technical debt. It might simply be due to the fact that...

I do agree with you, Steve, that it would be best if there were someone who could notify users regularly during a crisis, so the technical staff can focus on...

Thank you, Steve, for sharing this. I use Azure DevOps and GitHub, like you do. Some of the links you listed in the reference you gave are things I didn't...

"This was a constant source of disappointment because there was no corporate desire for improvement." Rick, I especially like that sentence. I can so relate to what you're said here....

One of the main reasons that I still work where I do now, is because of the genuine 'no-blame' culture that I experience here.

On the system that I'm involved...

Excellent editorial, Steve. I've never worked at a company/organization that practiced a blameless culture. Even in today's world, where the concept of employees mental health has been raised higher than...

Have a great time off, Grant!

1. Today's collaboration software make it possible to be as productive from home as in the office.   Productivity is measurable, and if those numbers are good, most companies can't...

The topic of remote work has become, for me, very important. Because of that I want to think for a while, before answering the questions you posed, Steve.

Thank you very much, Steve! I'm going to start a file on standing desks. This Jarvis Standing desktop will be my first entry.