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The AL team has grown continually over the past few years with us now having one of the largest permanent team of DevOps Engineers in the UK. We’ve chosen to grow sustainably to maintain our culture as a people-first business and remain focused on delivering exceptional service to each and every one of our clients. […]

The delivery manager. Part Project Manager, part Agile Coach, part Scrum Master, we could go on. Our Delivery Managers have such a wide set of skills to be able to work with our UK enterprise clients. So how do we attract them? And how do we create a working environment that allows them to best […]

Although many organisations realised how important it is to adopt agile ways of working, and what the benefits of business agility are, it is still very challenging to gather all business requirements and insights from user research to inform better decisions. Usually, in this phase, many of us rush as we want to deliver value […]

Nearly two years ago we did a piece with two of our first DevOps Academy Graduates, they had just left the academy, and were doing some work with one of our clients for a few weeks to get some experience. If you missed it, you can take a look here. Fast forward to now and […]

Automation Logic’s Partner and Co-Founder Kris Saxton Recently spoke at Computing’s DevOps Live Event on a Framework for continuous DevOps Improvement, highlighting the necessity of measuring results in order to ensure your DevOps Project is headed in the right direction and how to get started. If you’ve ever found yourself pondering on these questions… Where […]

This is part two of The Bitesize DevOps Series with Partner and Co-Founder Kris Saxton. For part one, click here. DevOps and Agile are equally hot topics right now, but both have been known to cause confusion. This post aims to address the question, can you do DevOps without Agile? Whilst highlighting the subtle differences […]

It’s common knowledge that there is an industry-wide struggle in hiring great DevOps Engineers. We pride ourselves on having some of the top experts in the industry, and this blog series aims to get to know some of our engineers and highlight how we create an environment to not only attract top talent but also […]

Transitioning to agile ways of working is not easy. The transition may take a long time and the results may not be visible straight away because changing people’s mindset and culture doesn’t happen overnight. It is important to realise the benefits of Agile transformation and the reasons for it. Many teams start adopting agile ways […]

This section of the Agile series is going to run through some of the most common buzzwords and potential pitfalls we see on a regular basis when we look at agile ways of working. The core values are simple but it can get complicated when terminology overrules principles. When we see teams who do regular […]

This is the first in a series of bitesize DevOps blogs by AL Partner and Co-Founder Kris Saxton. Part one is introducing DevOps and differentiating it from other industry methodologies. At its heart, DevOps is very simple: DevOps is an organisational model where people operate in teams arranged around a product or service instead of […]