DYI projects have something in common. Can you guess?

There’s an owner, preferring to do the job themselves. Have you asked: Are there tasks done in our IT shop that we could offer up as self-serve services? Are our apps designed so stakeholders can do all their tasks without support from other groups? The ownership issue is at the foundation of these designs. If you […]
You hired a hotshot. Amazing!

Well. Let me give you some background on this fellow. He was charged with automating the Windows Updates for the app and DB servers. There were critical on-prem SharePoint servers in the mix. A raft of new tools were employed, most open-sourced. There was Chocolatey, React, Jenkins, Yarn, and more. The fellow worked by himself […]