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!
Using Pivotal Assumptions to Increase Velocity
Pivotal assumption - “An assumption on business case, priority, minimum viable offer, or requirement that if false will fundamentally change designs, deliverables, or timelines.” In my post on how organisational factors increase the bad impact of architectural debt, I referred to how the lack of clear business objectives and priorities slow you down and prevent important … [Read more...] about Using Pivotal Assumptions to Increase Velocity
The Importance of the Backlog and the Product Owner
In a previous post, I wrote about the challenges and strains on roles and processes when a traditional waterfall (or even agile) organisation introduces devops. Most people focus on the tools needed and how you must establish a build pipeline and support for continuous deployment to production. However, the success of devops is in the practices of the people involved, not the … [Read more...] about The Importance of the Backlog and the Product Owner
The Changing Development Organisation: The Software Architect
(intro to this post on devops) It has been a busy few months. Since my last post I have transitioned to a new role as part of day to day development (see linkedin.com/in/greger for more details) in the Collaboration Infrastructure Technology Group (UC, telephony, telepresence, conferencing, etc) in Cisco. Earlier, as part of Office of the CTO, I influenced the medium to … [Read more...] about The Changing Development Organisation: The Software Architect
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