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Sitecore Symposium 2019 – So you think you can DevOps?

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This year at Sitecore Symposium we launched a new DevOps track, with two rooms of sessions delivering what you need for day-to-day tactical solutions, but also bigger-picture, strategic guidance. Do you want to know how to deploy your code with Azure DevOps? We got you covered. Or maybe you are wondering how to fit an agile process into a waterfall organization? We got you there too! This track can appeal to both the technical and the business, it’s not all about Solr (though we got that too, thanks Jeremy!)

I am really proud of the sessions that Rob Earlam and I selected for the track this year, I think we have a little bit of something for everybody. Below, find your guide to all things DevOps at this year’s event!

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Continuous Improvement for Sitecore DevOps

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Did you miss out on my Montreal SUG presentation a few weeks back? Not to worry, I got your back!

I recorded a run-through of my presentation and uploaded it so you can hear my thoughts on how we can continuously improve and invest in DevOps practices for our Sitecore projects. It’s not exactly what was in Montreal, but close enough 🙂

Want more? Come hear the Effective DevOps for Sitecore panel at Symposium 2017 on Wednesday, October 18th, at 11:15am. I’ll be moderating panelists Kam Figy, Derek Hunziker, and Joe Bissol. Great panel, great content!

 

Eleventh day of Christmas… Blogs A-Plenty!

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On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me… eleven re-blogged posts!

…ten women of Sitecore, nine sessions of training, eight tweets a-tweeting, seven VSTS features, six GIFS a-dancing, five Golden Rules!
Four Community Sites, three Maturity Models, two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed.

As a fun twist, each post has been given a new classic ‘link-bait’ title. You won’t believe your eyes!

  1. Three Easy Sitecore Instance Role Configurations
  2. Six Steps to custom TDS Post Deploy Steps
  3. Need Continuous Everything now? Read more!
  4. 7 Sitecore Burst videos… number 4 will surprise you!
  5. You wouldn’t believe what happened at Sitecore Symposium!
  6. This Big Bad Wolf won’t scare you after you read this post
  7. Are you using VSTS and NuGet? You need to read this now!
  8. Got Sitecore? Want HTTP/2? Your IT team is probably telling you no. Here’s why!
  9. Multi-tenant? Multi-site? And SSL? With Sitecore? Yes you can!
  10. I hate best practices and so do you (okay, so this one was already pretty link-baity…)
  11. Can’t find the roles in your TDS package? Read this to unlock the secret.

Third day of Christmas… Maturity Models!

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On the third day of Christmas my true blog gave to me… three maturity models!

.. two Sitecore PaaS features, and Sitecore in a NuGet feed.

Customer Experience Maturity Model

Sitecore released a maturity model a while back to guide organizations through the various stages of engaging a customer.  Great for seeing where you line up and how you can get to the next stage. You can download the PDF here:

Sitecore Customer Experience Maturity Model

DevOps Maturity Model

Last year I released a maturity model for continuous improvement of your DevOps practices. I use this as a guide for helping put together a roadmap for organizations looking to improve their delivery. Download it here:

DevOps Maturity Model

SEO Maturity Curve

Nothing like a little search engine optimization to ring in the holiday season! Details of SEO might be constantly changing, but the maturity of investment in SEO is always there. Check it out:

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Sitecore Production Deployments: The Big Bad Wolf

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SPECIAL NOTE: This article is a lead up for my November 30th #SCUniversity session on Continuous Integration and Deployment. Register for the webinar now!

Do you need to secure 14 signatures and present technical documentation just to run a script on your production database? Does it take a group of enterprise architects to approve a change to your application? Or do you have no restrictions whatsoever but are so afraid of touching the production server in case the slightest change brings everything down?

You are not alone… the word ‘Production’ has become synonymous with ‘Hallowed’ and a culture of fear dominates all changes made to a working production environment. An upcoming production deployment can feel like the Big Bad Wolf is coming to blow your house down.

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Continuous Everything: The Art of Repetition

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It is very fashionable to apply a single word to pretty much ANYTHING to try to get in on the latest trend. The current ‘Whatever-Ops’ trend (MarketingOps, ChatOps, OpsOps) is one such example. For a while, though, we’ve been having the word ‘Continuous’ thrown in front of a whole lot of activities in the software development world: Continuous Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Management. There’s a reason for this… repeatable processes are a key ingredient to predictable delivery. And predictable delivery means money in the bank!

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