This week’s update is another short one we’ve just come back from an awesome holiday in the lake district. I’d had an intense few of weeks of writing and interviewing and then to top it all off I contracted some sort of flu or virus thing. Kylie’s contract had just come to an end and so we decided to take a short break before she started her next one. As you can see we had a great time and the weather was wonderful!

I love the lake district.There’s something about the fresh air and the countryside that really refreshes me. If anyone in Cumbria is considering a DevOps transformation please feel free to get in touch :).

I’ve returned ready to get the framework into a first draft state and published on Github so you can all get your teeth into it. On that note Kylie has finished her initial assessment and she’s provided some initial feedback that I’ll be working on this week.

Finally I’m participating in a panel discussing the business need for DevOps at Computing Summit’s DevOps 2015 event next week, July 8th. I hope I’ll see some of you there If you’re not interested in seeing me speak you should definitely hear what my friend Phil Hendren of Mind Candy fame has to say. While I’ve been leading DevOps initiatives and teams for the last 6 years Phil’s been engineering the solutions that make it happen you can find Phil’s blog here, it’s a great source of practical DevOps advice and tools.