Richard Fennell
Microsoft MVP
Richard is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in DevOps consultancy and bespoke development usually on Microsoft platforms
As CTO he is responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow Black Marble, and their clients, to deliver solutions efficiently. All Black Mable’s development activity is underpinned by Azure DevOps tools and an agile process model.
He is a MVP for Developer Tools (nee Visual Studio ALM, nee Team System), an ALM Ranger, a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng)
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Why don't people seem to be able to diagnose problems these days?
Too often I see people banging their heads against a problem making no progress. They don't seem to have the fault diagnostic skills to let them approach a problem in alternative ways
In this session I will discuss problem solving approaches and techniques. This will be more of a patterns and practices session than one on tool and debugger tips.
How can I automatically create Azure DevOps Release Notes and how can I publish them?
Good documentation is important to all software development projects. However, it is often an area that is neglected.
Though not a 100% solution, the creation of good release notes is an important part of the documentation set.
In this session, I will show how release notes can be automatically generated directly within your Azure DevOps Pipelines. This can be done whether you are using Classic UI based builds and release or the newer multi-stage YAML pipelines. The resultant files providing the basis upon which the final documentation.
10 Practices for a Healthy DevOps Life
For too many teams the dream of good DevOps practices remains just that, a dream. The goal is just too much of a step from where the team currently are, it is all too daunting. Technological and organisational inertia effectively block modernisation and hence the promised efficiencies of DevOps are not delivered.
In this session I will show how a team, or company, can approach their DevOps journey as a manageable series of steps towards their long term goal. Making best use of the appropriate tools, techniques, processes and adoption approaches that best fit the team’s needs.
This is not a session focusing on any specific product, but rather on the generalities of adopting DevOps processes. Highlighting where I have seen teams struggle, and how they managed to overcome these barriers. It looks at how technologies and process can be introduced to an organisation in such a way to make the successful adoption of a modern DevOps approach something everyone supports, irrespective of their role in the organisation
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