Month: January 2016

How I converted my entire company over to Confluence, and lived happily ever after

 

Note:  I am not endorsing or advertising any specific tool in this article.  It’s merely meant to share my tips from rolling out a new tool across a company.

I couldn’t believe it.

On my first day on the job I asked “so, where’s the wiki?”  The answer was this horribly outdated wiki system which shall remain unnamed.  The most recent article in it was a couple months old.

After just coming from a company that was tool happy (see this article for just a small subset of monitoring tools alone), I was shocked that this promising startup was so clueless when it came to their intranet and communication systems.  I was used to using tools from Atlassian like Confluence, Jira, and HipChat.

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Git – A Brief Guide for Managers

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Overview

Let’s face it, the entire software industry is moving over to git.  Open source has already moved.  A fairly old, but still interesting, StackOverflow article shows some data on how the open source community has largely moved over to git.  You can view the article HERE.  The TLDR is this, you need to understand Git.

If your team isn’t already asking for it, they will be shortly.  You need to understand what the implications are to your software project, and determine a migration strategy.  Also, you need to understand the basic workflow and terminology that Git introduces.

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