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Protect your work life balance – take a real sick day
Not using sick days costs yourself and the people around you. Here’s why you should use your sick leave to rest from home – not work from home.
Optimize communications for your continuous integration and continuous delivery process
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is becoming a standard process in organizations that embrace agile development. CI/CD tools like Bitbucket, Bamboo and Jenkins can help by automating many of the build and deployment steps. However, there are still situations where human intervention is required and Opsgenie can make sure the right responders are notified […]
How to rescue your New Year resolutions by working smarter
Change is hard and willpower fades fast. But don’t give up yet! Use these strategies and techniques from the Team Playbook to stay the course.
Research shows productive teams do these 3 things
Everyone wants to be more productive, especially at work. Here are the three pillars of team productivity you need to get the job done, and enjoy it, too.
How to facilitate your best offsite meeting ever
Offsite meetings don’t need a fancy venue or catered lunch to succeed. Successful offsites need thoughtful facilitation that emphasizes the human factor.
This is what the future of the enterprise looks like
Don’t you wish your company ran like a finely-tuned Formula 1 car? We don’t have a crystal ball, but we’ve got a good view on how enterprises can do that.
Opsgenie Actions: sign up for early access
When operating always-on services, engineers need to quickly respond to alerts and prevent issues from becoming outages. Fortunately, many alerts can be resolved through easy changes to systems or network infrastructure. However, these tasks still require manual intervention and cause interruptions for on-call responders. Opsgenie Actions, now available in beta, can reduce manual interventions by […]
The new approach to work life balance
These tips and strategies will help you find time for… you.
The Marie Kondo guide to organizing your content
Organizing your company’s content from your wiki or intranet doesn’t have to be a dreaded chore. Use these 4 tips to set yourself up for success.
Career development planning for the intellectually curious
How to make sure you create a career development plan that sets you up for success, including the Start, Stop, Continue method and T-shaped professionals.
Working with extroverts (written by an actual extrovert)
Here’s my dirty little work secret: I like meetings. Especially ones that show up on my calendar last minute. Ones with no agenda or structure. The meetings that start with 11 minutes of chatter and go well past their time slot. Conversations that dip and weave through different topics, finding their way home after looping […]
How to counteract 3 types of bias and run inclusive meetings
Unconscious biases against introverts, remote workers, and women mean they struggle to be heard in meetings. Use these tactics to be more inclusive.
That time I deleted all my meetings (on purpose)
You know you want to get rid of all your recurring meetings. Here’s why you should.
6 meeting hacks (and 1 weird tip) that build trust
The first one is: just close your laptops
Dear admins: this one’s for you
The end of the year is typically a time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished in the past twelve months and set goals for the new year. If you’re part of an IT team, you’ve probably accomplished a lot, from managing software upgrades to dealing with major incidents and service outages. But how many times […]