The Skytap Podcast

We sat down with The Training Clinic's Maria Chilcote learn more about how she—and others—see marketing as one of the keys to learning and development's future success. By embracing a marketing mindset, training professionals are able to more easily collaborate with other departments and better align themselves with the business goals everyone is tasked with delivering.

By observing peace and contributing to its growth on Peace Day each year, millions of people around the world have enabled some amazing things to happen that wouldn't have otherwise been possible. We interviewed Peace One Day's Jeremy Gilley to learn how others can help make world peace a reality one day.

Senior instructional technology specialist Nina Talley sits down with us to discuss how baking quality into virtual training requires some careful pre-planning, especially when delivering training on a global scale where hardware and/or bandwidth constraints may come into play.

We sat down with Clark Quinn at the 2016 Learning Solutions Conference and Expo after attending his session, "Measurement Matters: The How and Why of eLearning Metrics.” Learn why Clark believes “L&D has the opportunity to be the most valuable part of your business" and what they have to stop doing in order to get there.

Skytap's Noel Wurst and Sudesh Girdhari sit down with Ajay Pangarkar to discuss the disconnect that often exists between "the business" and training departments. With a background in finance, Ajay offers some excellent tips for trainers looking to avoid over-promising ROI to finance professionals, and how to deliver impressive results.

Shannon Tipton sat down with us at Training 2016 to give us a preview of her session, “Creating Your 21st Century Toolbox.” Shannon explains how the modernization of training involves using traditional tools in a new way, and why training needs to be available whenever, and wherever students need it most.

Sonatype VP and DevOps Advocate Derek Weeks sits down with Noel Wurst and Jason English to share strategies for building your organization's DevOps toolchain, and we all dive into the increased responsibility for quality in embedded software.

Gary Gruver joins us this week on the DevHops podcast to discuss his new book, Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale. Gary provides a wealth of info around DevOps at the enterprise level and how organizations can truly set themselves up for success as their initiatives expand across multiple services.

Skytap VP of IT Operations Paul Farrall discusses his personal experience of a DevOps-style transformation at his previous company, Big Fish Games. Great content and easy listen if you are interested in DevOps or agile software delivery that takes operational concerns into account. Learn how team dynamics and trust can prove more important than skills and tools. Stream here or download for free. Get the Dev-Hops podcast at https://skytap.com/blog.

Skytap DevOps consulting manager Kelly Looney and I had the chance to sit down with Accenture agile and DevOps lead Mirco Hering before his session, "Adopting DevOps Practices for Systems of Record" at the 2015 DevOps Enterprise Summit. Mirco shared his thoughts on where to begin your DevOps initiatives within legacy systems, and some common pitfalls to avoid.