Rolling out an on-call rotation is one of those leadership rites of passage that feels equal parts necessary and terrifying. Necessary, because someone has to be around when things inevitably go sideways. Terrifying, because done poorly, it can torpedo team morale, erode trust, and burn people out faster than a buggy deploy on a Friday afternoon.
Continue ReadingIt’s clearly defining who and what your organization is, where it’s going, and how it’s going to get there.
It sounds simple. But many organizations struggle to articulate a clear vision—let alone rally their team around it.
Without vision, you’re steering a ship without a map. With it, you align every person, project, and priority around a shared destination. Here’s how to make that happen—and what leaders must do to bring their vision off the page and into real life.
Continue ReadingIn today’s corporate landscape, companies proudly display their core values on walls, websites, and employee handbooks. Integrity. Innovation. Customer-first. Collaboration. These words are meant to inspire and guide teams, but too often, they become mere platitudes—statements that sound good but lack real impact.
The danger arises when leadership fails to enforce, supervise, or embody these values. When values are not actively practiced, they breed cynicism among employees, erode trust, and can even damage a company’s reputation. A strong set of values is not just about having them; it’s about living them every day.
Continue ReadingThis is a quick post to show how to clone all repositories in an Azure DevOps project. This is useful if you need to clone all repositories to your local machine and there are a lot of them or to run a script against all repositories. This script requires the Azure CLI and the Azure DevOps extension.
Continue ReadingCreating an Ubuntu VM using Hyper-V using the Quick Create feature is a quick and easy way to get a VM up and running. It also configures the VM with Integration Services so you can do cool things like resize the VM window and share your clipboard between the host and the VM. Unfortunately, it does not support the most recent versions of Ubuntu and it creates a really small disk. This post will tackle the second issue by creating a VM with a small disk and then expanding it. This is useful for any other linux VMs you create that need more space. We will walk through the process from the beginning, but if you already have a VM created, you can skip to the section on expanding the disk.
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