My experience of working remotely with our customers
In my previous blog post I described the onboarding experience at Kosli and how I got started with my colleagues in a remote-first company. This time I’d like to take this topic further and talk about …
5 reasons why your CI system is a terrible Compliance System of Record
“Why can’t we use our CI system for our Compliance System of Record (CSoR)?” This is a question we get asked a lot when we’re talking about compliance with regulated DevOps teams. And it’s a perfectly …
How to design a DevOps Compliance System of Record
If you deliver software in a regulated industry you have to be able to show that you are following a defined process. And that means being able to produce a record of what’s going on in your DevOps …
How regulated teams can avoid the DevOps Lite trap with DevOps Change Management
DevOps is being adopted across regulated industries, but old ITIL approaches to change management still create unnecessary lead times and risks. Fortunately, you don’t have to fall into the DevOps …
How to secure your software supply chain with Artifact Binary Provenance
In Kosli, we use Artifact Binary Provenance as the foundation for our audit trails. Artifact Binary Provenance is a fancy term, but the idea behind it is really quite simple. All it means is that we …
Kosli 2021 - Making friends with change
A lot can happen in a year, and 2021 was no different. We want to help everyone make friends with change and in 2021 we made a few changes ourselves. Hit play on Eye of the Tiger 🐅 and roll the …
8 reasons why we do ensemble programming
At Kosli we do as much of our work as possible in a group setting, especially (but not limited to) programming. In our experience most tech teams don’t do this and we think they’re missing out on all …
My first week at Kosli - Meet, mobbing, and more!
At the beginning of November I started at Kosli. It’s not my first job - I have plenty of experience when it comes to starting afresh. In my time as a consultant it felt like I was starting a new job …
It’s 2021! Why does Change Management still suck?
There’s an excellent management paper from 2001 called Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened. In it, the researchers looked into how companies create and sustain process …
