Columbia Sportswear Experience Report

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Timeline shows DevOps applied to Windows shops with concrete wins and surprises: 1,300 servers in Chef after rising from ~0 to 500, a custom brownfield automation script that imports VMware servers into configuration management, and chatops-driven deployments via Slack PowerShell hooks and GitLab CI. Learning Labs and weekly blameless retrospectives produce repeatable onramps, game-day chaos testing, Terraform/ARM for cloud greenfield, datacenter migration automation, and measurable cross‑training and uptime improvements.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:06Columbia's DevOps Journey within a Microsoft Enterprise
3. 5:18What's been your favorite aspect of the journey?
4. 5:53People, Teammates, Mentorship, Learning to ask for help; Developing confidence
5. 6:14What's been your least favorite aspect of the journey?

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