<div dir="ltr">My dear heart has been dealing with the problem of people "building empires" out of people, hardware, or knowledge for years. Devops means breaking up those little fiefdoms, focusing on the good of the whole rather than what the individual. <div><br></div><div>Just a thought. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 9:38 AM Matt Heusser <<a href="mailto:matt@xndev.com">matt@xndev.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello folks -</div><div><br></div><div>I'm redoing my company website and I have three little "badges" that each need 2-4 sentences of copy.  Right now the words are experience, delivery, and support. Here's what I have so far, curious your thoughts. (I will not bore you with the copy for the whole site but if someone with copy-writing experience wants to review what I have for a buck or two, we could talk about that)</div><div><br></div><div>My company does consulting and contracting for either enterprises or software companies. Mostly we do the improvement stuff - helping them go faster, building infrastructure, reducing risk. etc. lately we've been DevOpsy.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's what I have now ...<br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Experience - Of course our consultants have decades of broad, progressive experience. That's a given. They also write influential papers, serve on volunteer boards, organize workshops, and give internationally acclaimed presentations.</span><br style="overflow:hidden;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="overflow:hidden;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Delivery - We focus on outcomes for your organization, not hours in seats or boxes checked. On a project that means software to customers. On an engagement it means value to you.</span><br style="overflow:hidden;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="overflow:hidden;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Support - Our work is relationship-based; we view happy customers as our extended sales force. That makes post-project support a requirement.</span></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_7907339424447112523gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7273px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">Matthew Heusser,</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7273px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7273px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">Managing Director, Excelon Development</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7273px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7273px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none"><a href="http://www.xndev.com" target="_blank">http://www.xndev.com</a><br><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7273px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">Learn Continuous Delivery with Me in Chicago, June 2019 at AgileTestingDays.us !</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7273px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7273px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">Save The Scrum! <a href="http://www.leanpub.com/SaveOurScrum" target="_blank">http://www.leanpub.com/SaveOurScrum</a><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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