Jen Krieger

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United States

Jen Krieger is Chief Agile Architect at Red Hat. Most of her 20+ year career has been in software development representing many roles throughout the waterfall and agile lifecycles.

At Red Hat, she led a department-wide DevOps movement focusing on CI/CD best practices. Most recently, she worked with with the Project Atomic & OpenShift teams.

Now Jen is guiding teams across the company into agility in a way that respects and supports Red Hat's commitment to Open Source.

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Authored Content

Coffee Shop DevOps: How to use feedback loops to get smarter

This month let's look at how to break the cycle of doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Do you think git blame is the only feedback loop you need…

Coffee Shop DevOps: Clearly defining and communicating team goals

Last month I interviewed the Cockpit team about team practices. We had an interesting conversation from many different angles, but most notable were the themes we kept…

How DevOps best practices improve team dynamics

I've spent the past few months writing about the small, incremental behaviors that individuals can employ to be more successful. This month, I'd like to highlight team…

5 rules for avoiding burnout

I have goals that might seem familiar to you: improve my overall working conditions, set boundaries for myself, and arrive at some sort of balance between a reasonable stream…

Coffee Shop DevOps: Complexity of change

Often I am approached and asked the question, "How do I get people to change what they are doing, especially when it is always so incredibly clear that they do not want to?"…

Coffee Shop DevOps: Start small, but start somewhere

I was recently talking to an engineer friend of mine over of a cup of coffee at a conference. His company had been in "DevOps strategy planning" for over six months and they…

Authored Comments

jkrieger

17 Aug 2016

Coffee Shop DevOps: How to use feedback loops to get smarter

I'm an owner of a 8' whiteboard in my office... always start with drawing things. :D

jkrieger

24 May 2016

5 rules for avoiding burnout

Hey liko - Typically when I reach my percentage of time for the day, I move on to other activities. Take that with a grain of salt though - this week and last week have been consumed with team support activities, so I am behind on everything else. I blocked some time off for myself on Friday and Thursday afternoon to play a bit of catchup on the other items I have languishing in my backlog that need attention. Having the visibility that they are there is a good reminder for me to keep context.