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Government Agencies: Top 10 Things to Think About Before Your Next DevOps Procurement
Initiating and executing DevOps projects is challenging in almost any organization. Government organizations have their additional unique...

Bella Trenkova
Apr 23, 20192 min read


How Technical a Technical PM Should Be?
There is significant ambiguity in how the terms “project manager”, “program manager”, “technical project manager”, “technical delivery...

Bella Trenkova
Mar 15, 20195 min read


Writing an Agile Playbook for a Federal Agency? – Shipley to the Rescue!
Using “Agile Playbook” and “Shipley” in the same sentence sounds counter-intuitive. There is nothing agile about Shipley, and Shipley has...

Bella Trenkova
Dec 9, 20188 min read


Engineer With Empathy
It’s been 25+ yrs, but I still remember one of my first freshman-year lectures at my alma mater. I don’t remember the exact class, nor...

Bella Trenkova
Nov 9, 20183 min read


Lean&Agile at Home
My previous post discussed my growth and my journey into integrating my work, personal and family lives into one whole that is better...

Bella Trenkova
Sep 14, 20186 min read


Getting A Little Personal
This is the first of series of posts where I will be sharing some wisdom bits and lessons-learned that may sound a little too personal...

Bella Trenkova
Sep 14, 20183 min read


Ladies, Dress the Part
"People should be beautiful in every way--in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves." Anton...

Bella Trenkova
Sep 14, 20182 min read


Agile DC Executive Summit
A speaker from a Fortune 500 company confirmed today a recent observation and a repeating theme from the Agile Readiness Assessment I am...

Bella Trenkova
Sep 12, 20181 min read


The People of DevOps
This article is a reflection of my observations from DevOps Days DC 2018 (June 6-7), which observations seemed to be a manifestation of a...

Bella Trenkova
Jun 21, 20185 min read


Business Resilience Is No Longer Only For The Big Boys And Girls
“Business Resilience” used to be something that only larger businesses could afford. Small businesses used to lack the foresight and...

Bella Trenkova
Jun 5, 20183 min read


Taking The “M” From “Mom” And Putting It In “Manager”
In my previous post in this series, I shared how I incorporated some of the core Lean & Agile concepts to improve my personal life. It...

Bella Trenkova
Jun 4, 201810 min read


We Are On The Cloud! And It Is A Little Breezy Here…
The Case For Cloud and DevOps Centers of Excellence and Enterprise Governance DevOps, as a concept of operation, and Cloud...

Bella Trenkova
May 14, 20186 min read


Book::Flawless Consulting
“...in thinking about these conflicts and paradoxes, forgiveness is required. No one can fully live accordingly to his or her believes....

Bella Trenkova
May 10, 20181 min read


Finding the Right Project Manager for the Job
As they say, “a good sales (wo)man can sell any product, and a good project manager can manage any project”. I, myself, have used this...

Bella Trenkova
Apr 3, 20184 min read


The Last Minute Manager
In this article, I share a time management technique that served me well as a project manager and in personal life.

Bella Trenkova
Mar 11, 20184 min read


An Alternative to “Innovation Fridays”
Most of us have heard of (or read about) the idea – give engineers the latitude to explore and some free time, and they will come up with...

Bella Trenkova
Mar 8, 20185 min read


Gen X Leading Gen M(illennial) Teams
This article was prompted by a social media post from a friend of a friend. The friend-of-a-friend posed an open question to others about...

Bella Trenkova
Feb 19, 20187 min read
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