Tag: Pain

Tech Leader Summit and ArchConf 2019

Tech Leader Summit and ArchConf 2019

by and | Community, Leadership, Organizations, People, Technology

Before we start the actual post, today is the blog’s 1st birthday! <3 (Our first post.) Thanks to anyone who has been reading, or anyone who will read in the future. We blog because we love it, and we appreciate…well, everything related to it.

Last month, we spoke at Tech Leader Summit and ArchConf, which are conferences from the No Fluff Just Stuff tour. We also spoke this summer at UberConf, which is on the same tour. We had an AMAZING time, and we wanted to record and share some of it for posterity.

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Building Alliances – or, Why Security is Awesome

Building Alliances – or, Why Security is Awesome

by and | Leadership, Organizations, Technology

Time to Go Fast

We work with a lot of people who are implementing Continuous Delivery. We see that when various bumps and boulders get out of the way of delivering software stably and rapidly, there’s a strong push to go very very fast. When this happens, there are often barricades put up in the name of security – because traditionally speed and security have been considered enemies. Traditional enterprise IT security would say, you can’t possibly go fast in a safe way, 

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There are No Maps in Leadership

There are No Maps in Leadership

by and | Community, Leadership

We were talking the other day about our leadership style, and what worked (through trial and error) for us. We came up with four points that we thought were critical.

Josh and Laine’s Plan for World Domination Leadership:

  1. There is no map
  2. Don’t be a jerk (unless necessary)
  3. Be good
  4. Find a partner/community

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