From the last few posts you might have noticed that I have been following up on the DevOps FastTrack offering, and the training that was provided by Microsoft on September, and how valuable that has been for me in understanding how a cutting-edge DevOps practice can be. The VSTS team in that regard is as cutting edge as Facebook’s, Google’s or Netflix. They are not bound to adopting practices such as SAFe (that was a question asked in one of the talks); rather they are defining their own because they are at a place where they are the pioneers (not the individual practices, but their use at scale). They are operating at the Ri level, they are transcending what is currently known.
It was a stated purpose that we as MVPs and Microsoft partners should share these presentations with our customers. I started doing that with every engagement since then, always starting the summary one made by Lori Lamkin.
Now the great surprise: Sam Guckenheimer has worked with the team that presented in extracting any NDA references, and has now shared the whole set of talks at DevOps at Microsoft. This is a treasure trove on how to to do DevOps with VSTS and beyond. I am organizing sessions at our company (Nebbia) so we can watch it together and use it as inspiration for next steps on our own DevOps journey.