Why So Much on Evernote and What is DevOps?

You may have been wondering what my last three posts were all about with topics like Outlook, Evernote (EN), and Getting Things Done (GTD).   I recently took a new position at my company.   I had come from a position that had never allowed to get organized or feel productive -- in work or life in general.    I took some time to try use these tools in a very prescriptive to way to get organized.   The prescriptive nature of the approach would allow me to "live the GTD lifestyle while I was not under constant pressure to get things done.     Now 2 months into the new position and the GTD approach to work and life is helping -- stay tuned.

You may be wondering what the the position is.  I joined a newly formed organization focused on "DevOps".  If you are not familiar with this burgeoning discipline, here is an "is"/"is not" exercise.    The source of this comes from "Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart Guide ", by Paul Swartout.

• DevOps is another way of working whereby developers and system operators work in harmony with little or no organizational barriers between them towards a common goal.
• DevOps is not a way to get developers doing operational tasks so they you can get rid of the operations team or vice versa.

If you took that Wikipedia link for DevOps above, you would also find the graphic shown below that should give you the sense that DevOps is the intersection of Development, Quality, and Operations.

You can expect to see much more from me on DevOps as well as an occasional post on on productivity tips for GTD using EN and Outlook.