Maria Vargas’s Reviews > The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win > Status Update

A half hour later, we finally write on the whiteboard: “a ‘change’ is any activity that is physical, logical, or virtual to applications, databases, operating systems, networks, or hardware that could impact services being delivered.”

Not everything is a change 🙄

Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent. Can everything really be that important?

Information Security is always flashing their badges at people and making urgent demands, regardless of the consequences to the rest of the organization, which is why we don’t invite them to many meetings. The best way to make sure something doesn’t get done is to have them in the room.

FACTS 😂

As the saying goes, if your colleague tells you they’ve decided to quit, it was voluntary. But when someone else tells you they’ve decided to quit, it was mandatory.

Each year, it gets harder. We have to do more with less, to simultaneously maintain competitiveness and reduce costs.

Facts 🙃