Due to my previous experience in DevOps, I sometime get dragged into conversations on “automating ourselves out of a job”. This blog post will highlight my opinions on this subject. Why? When I observe a company discuss DevOps and automation for the first time. It usually starts off with a business leader excitedly claim that “insert peer company name” was able to solve some outage from hours to minutes due to automation. Or they claim a fault was resolved…
After leading a SCRUM team for the last few months, these are my top 5 lessons learnt that I would like to share with anyone that is about to start this journey. Not all programs of work can be delivered in Agile An Agile framework such as SCRUM is great for software development and IT because of the short cycles. Most pieces of work is sized for a quarter and within those 3 months, value needs to be created…
Most weeks, I am involved in the discussions of CCIE’s relevance in today’s industry. In this post, I would like to highlight some of my thoughts. Pre CCIE When I first joined Cisco, it was a dream to obtain my CCIE. There were many stories of the hardship to obtain your digits and some engineers still could not achieve this status after many years. The CCIEs that I did come across seem to be in a league of their own….