<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Interesting article, thanks for sharing!<br><br>> It’s about understanding what other parts of the system are trying to
say: other people, certainly, but not just the people in your
development group, or in your development and operations groups. And
once we grasp that, we’re way beyond tools.<br><br>> There’s a value to structure, both in organizations and in code, and
it’s worth sacrificing some performance to gain the benefits of
structure.<br><br></div>Together, I think these two points come fairly close to capturing the essence of user stories: being deliberate about structure and organization (e.g. by curation and prioritization of the backlog) and addressing the needs of the user by truly understanding them in their contexts.<br><br></div><div><plug>My take[1][2] on defining DevOps, though more development-focused, shares much of the philosophy of this article and might be an interesting follow-up.</plug><br><br></div><div>1. Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYAFWTyOlE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYAFWTyOlE</a><br></div><div>2. Slides: <a href="http://earldouglas.github.io/scala-cd/sbtb-2014/">http://earldouglas.github.io/scala-cd/sbtb-2014/</a><br><br></div><div>Cheers!<br>James<br></div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Max Binder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mxbndr@gmail.com" target="_blank">mxbndr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Arthur suggested this might be a good place to share this. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/02/what-is-devops-yet-again.html" target="_blank">http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/02/what-is-devops-yet-again.html</a></font><br></div></div>
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