users and stakeholders monthly. These frequent iterations effectively measure progress, reduce technical and programmatic risk, and respond to feedback and changes more quickly than traditional methods operational and technical stakeholders. A product owner or a scrum master manages the backlogs, updating them based on the results of releases and sprints, changing operational priorities, or technical considerations software, to include software developers, database administrators and architects, testers, and other technical experts. End Users Conveys operational concepts and requirements/needs, participate in continuous

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actually degrade over time. 2. We improve daily work by explicitly reserving time to pay down technical debt, fix defects, and refactor and improve problematic areas of our code and environments—we do actionable data within weeks f. RESERVE 20% OF CYCLES FOR NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND REDUCING TECHNICAL DEBT i. Don’t just make the interest payments, pay down the principle ii. If not managed, services

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The DevOps Handbook – Parts 5 & 6 – Part 5: The Third Way – The Technical Practices of Continual Learning and Experimentation; 1. Introduction a. Goal – practices to enable learning as quickly, frequently in days that previously would have taken 3-6 months c. INSTITUTIONALIZE RITUALS TO PAY DOWN TECHNICAL DEBT i. Regularly schedule day- or week- long improvement blitzes with Dev & Ops teams. Focus on Provide Test Certified Mentors and Test Mercenaries to kick start testing efforts – Part 6: The Technical Practices of Integrating Information Security, Change Management, and Compliance 1. Introduction

which we are finished investing and just need to “maintain.” But unless we want functional and technical debt, a lumpy EA, and a need to do an expensive and risky transformation effort, FOC is in no sense has already chosen to accept—is destroying business value. An IT leader must have the necessary technical skills, make impeccable decisions under uncertainty, and then have the courage to face the consequences inevitable.  Respect for skill: Your new IT workforce will respect co-workers who have impressive technical skills, and will have little respect for people who don’t. Skill is demonstrated through hands-on

in the future. What does such an EA, brimming with latent value, look like?  It has little technical debt.  It is built according to good, extensible design patterns and uses well-accepted standards has already chosen to accept—is destroying business value. An IT leader must have the necessary technical skills, make impeccable decisions under uncertainty, and then have the courage to face the consequences

that follow. We hope this compilation adds to the discussion of the breadth of change at play – technical / financial / social / physical / geopolitical. No doubt, people (and machines) will improve on xAI had acquired X in an all-stock deal. The deal valued xAI at $80B and X at $33B ($45B less $12B debt). Source: Duolingo (5/1/25), DeepMind, Elon Musk (5/2/25), Fox News There’s three places where [GenAI plurality of options is empowering a new wave of builders to choose the best-fit model for their technical or financial needs. What’s emerging is a flywheel of developer-led infrastructure growth. As

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The DevOps Handbook – Part 3 The First Way – The Technical Practices of Flow 1. Introduction a. Goal – Enable & sustain fast flow of work by implementing continuous delivery i. Create the foundation the issue is addressed v. Changing human behaviors and incentives is more challenging than the technical aspects n. WHY WE NEED TO PULL THE ANDON CORD i. If not, it becomes increasing difficult to get application code iv. By separating the actions, release becomes a business decisions, not a technical decision v. Environment-based Release Pattern – multiple environments available, only one is receiving