Do something for long enough and you’re bound to make a lot of the mistakes that can be made. If you can learn from those, and share them with others, then you’re on the right path. So that’s what this session is about: the technical best practices and lessons Don’s learned in 13 years of working with PowerShell, his observations on making DevOps “actually work” in business environments, and his own personal life lessons and career achievements that have come along the way. You’ll learn the write way to design a PowerShell advanced function, what a truly functional DevOps team actually looks like, and the biggest “unlocks” Don’s cobbled together in over two decades in the IT industry. In-person attendees will also get a free collection of Don’s most popular ebooks.
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Don Jones is the co-founder of The DevOps Collective, which runs PowerShell.org, PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, and provides technology education funding to underprivileged and underrepresented individuals throughout the US. Don has been a Microsoft MVP Award recipient for 15 years, and has worked with PowerShell since before its launch in 2006. PowerShell’s inventor, Jeffrey Snover, named Don the “First Follower” of PowerShell. Today, Don is a Vice President in the Content organization at Pluralsight, the technology skills platform. Over his 25-year career, Don has authored literally dozens of IT books, including the first-published book on PowerShell and the bestselling Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches. Don’s current projects include fiction and other genre novels, and can be found at leanpub.com/u/donjones. Don also posts regularly to his site, DonJones.com, and holds occasional workshops around Be the Master, his book on achieving success and helping others do the same (BeTheMaster.com).