This is another post in my series on transitioning from waterfall to agile and devops processes. This post covers the program manager role, a rather unassuming role in some organisations, an important role in others, but nevertheless a role where the right person can potentially make a big impact. There are a few different types of program managers, so let me be clear on the … [Read more...] about The Program Manager in the Agile/DevOps Organisation
Archives for 2016
Spark Collaboration APIs and Google AppEngine: A demo app
In the beginning of December, our CEO, Rowan Trollope, and CTO, Jonathan Rosenberg, launched our Spark developer platform for collaboration at the Collaboration Summit. Over Christmas, I played around a bit to see what we expose publicly, and thought I’d share a bit about what I did. The guys from the Tropo acquisition have been working on this, and they have really done a … [Read more...] about Spark Collaboration APIs and Google AppEngine: A demo app
Acano acquisition has closed!
It's official. Acano is now a part of Cisco: http://cs.co/acrtb16. Together with my counterparts at Acano, I have been working on technical evaluations and architecture for Cisco and Acano conferencing moving forward (in something called a "clean room" where confidential information is shared). From now on we can share and engage freely across the organisations, and we are now … [Read more...] about Acano acquisition has closed!
How to ensure that video resources are available when people want to meet?
Video conferencing requires conference servers (aka bridges) to be available when people want to meet. How do we ensure that people can show up to meetings and that they are not rejected at the door (busy signal when dialling into a meeting)? This post is aimed at the IT and network operations person, and although a part of my series on the next-generation multi stream video … [Read more...] about How to ensure that video resources are available when people want to meet?
Renaming Sipstuff to …just Stuff!
I started this blog in 2006, at a time I was involved in the open source development of SIP Express Router and iptel.org. Back in 2007, I was quite optimistic about SIP and Web 2.0 technologies and how I expected innovation to happen with these two sets of protocols. Fast forward nine(!) years, and I can conclude that I was too optimistic :-) SIP and Web 2.0 technologies did … [Read more...] about Renaming Sipstuff to …just Stuff!
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