1. Liberate yourself from annual budget cycles
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| The use of the traditional annual fiscal cycle to determine resource allocation encourages a culture that thwarts our ability to experiment and innovate. It perpetuates spending on wasteful activities and ideas that are unlikely to deliver value. Organizations find it hard to let go of the long-held belief that strong, centralized control provides valuable efficiencies, but Joanne Molesky, coauthor ofLean Enterprise, shows that there are other approaches that free you to innovate. |
2. Solving monitoring
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| We're building and operating complex systems, writes Ryan Frantz of Etsy. They possess known relationships between components and display (potentially unknown) emergent behavior. When it comes to monitoring, it's not so much that monitoring is terrible; the real issue is one of narrow scope. |
3. Lean practices to innovate in the enterprise, a 3-part training series
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 How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies? The Lean Enterprise Live Training Series, based on the book of the same name, presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale—and demonstrates why and how to apply these methodologies throughout your organization.
Presented by authors Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, and Barry O'Reilly, this free, live series will show you how new practices can empower your enterprise organization to innovate at scale.
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4. Flipboard and the dream of the mobile web
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| The engineering team at Flipboard recently announced that they had managed to give the new "web version" of Flipboard a smooth 60 frames per second on mobile by forfeiting the DOM and rendering the entire thing in Canvas. This was interpreted by many as a call to give up on the DOM and use React.js and Canvas instead.Christian Heilmann reflects on the ensuing outrage and muses about solving the right problem with the wrong approach. |
5. A new star for Velocity
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 Heads up everyone: Laura Bell has just agreed to give a keynote presentation at Velocity. “A shy and retiring wallflower..." is one of the many phrases that will neverbe used to describe Laura Bell. After almost a decade in the offensive security and operations world, she's taking on the world of defense and specializing in Agile application security.
This news is so fresh, you won't find it on the Velocity website yet, but take a look atour growing list of speakers. If price is a consideration for you or your team, take note that there are only 14 days left to get a ticket at the lowest price. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.
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6. DevOps checklist
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| How well do you do DevOps? You can stop wondering now. Thanks to Steve Pereira we have a 48-point checklist to gauge the maturity of your software delivery competency, and form a baseline to measure your future improvements. |
7. How do databases fit into DevOps?
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| The DevOpsGuys have been spending time with the folks at Redgate, learning what they're doing around database lifecycle management. Some interesting conversations and questions have come up, such as why do tensions mount whendatabases are added to the mix of a continuous delivery process? |
8. Automate code to adapt to customer demand quickly
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 Part 3 of O'Reilly's 6-part "Coded Business" training series brings Facebook production engineer Phil Dibowitz to discuss the dramatically accelerating cycle of getting features/products/releases to users, and collecting and acting on user feedback.
Join Phil to learn what IT must do to make coded business a reality today, elements of scale, and the benefits of automation, no matter how large or complex your organization is.
Wednesday, March 18, at 10am PT
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9. Users don't care about your product
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| Nobody cares about your product, says Laura Klein. People care about themselves. If your goal is to have users explore your product, just stop it, and do these things instead. |
10. The happier days of Radio Shack
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| Amid employee complaints, countless missteps, and articles celebrating Radio Shack's demise, you might cast your mind back to happier days by browsing the catalog archive or watching their old commercials, all of which Colin Marshall has thoughtfully curated. |
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