A Scrum Ceremony is a type of scrum event or meeting that is intended to help move projects forward in a more timely and efficient manner. These ceremonies occur at key points in the production process, emphasizing organized collaboration and communication between team members to help simplify complex development processes and queues. For example, Daily Scrum is a ceremony held every morning to go over which items have been completed, which are being worked on, and which are coming up.

Within DevOps, we talk a lot about the on-call process—but what about the human side of being on-call? For example, what are effective ways of managing stress and anxiety during a shift? How can one manage life situations that make being on-call difficult—such as being responsible for watching the kids during an on-call rotation? And how can an empathic team culture help prevent burnout and turnover?

Creating a new product or implementing a new feature should be rewarding and encourage innovation. However, when a development team is instead stuck writing lengthy requirements documentation with suffocatingly rigid guidelines, that may not always be the case. Traditional software development methods relied heavily on following a predetermined set of requirements for each unique feature of a given product, service, or application.

Earlier this fall, we announced a significant evolution in the IT process automation portfolio at PagerDuty—the general availability of PagerDuty Rundeck Actions and early access for Rundeck Cloud. These new offerings reflect our vision to enable companies to take real-time actions by democratizing access to automation. In other words, to quickly and safely delegate automated IT processes to the IT users (and APIs) that need them to get work done.

When it comes to the applications, websites, and services we build, the end user ultimately determines whether or not the end product is successful. Even the greatest concepts can fall short if the application does not consistently meet the evolving needs and expectations of the user. Just look at what happened to sites like Myspace or Yahoo.

The next great space race is on. Today, there are multiple companies competing to earn their slice of a global space industry set to be worth more than $1 trillion by 2040. However, launching a satellite into space still isn’t an option for most organizations due to the prohibitive costs and complex engineering required.