TeamSPS

Nov 12, 2019 ∞

Growth Summit 2020

Selfie with #TeamSPS before our 2020 Growth Summit! 🙌🤩🏆

Selfie of a smiling bald man in front of six colleagues seated in reserved presenter rows inside a packed conference auditorium.

We had a great time today at #TeamSPS celebrating our wins from 2019, and looking forward to the great work we are planning in 2020! 🙌🏆

John Sweeney gave a thought provoking and actionable keynote for #TeamSPS today on bringing an innovative mindset to everything we do! Loved all of it!

Large auditorium filled with hundreds of attendees watching a keynote speaker on stage, with three screens displaying Innovative Mindset behind him.

Congratulations to the four #TeamSPS members that we recognized for over twenty years with SPS Commerce today! Your contributions continue to add value each and every day! 🤩👏

Five people stand on a stage at a large corporate conference, with a large audience seated in front of them and big screens overhead.

Nov 11, 2019 ∞

Our newest floor opened up in SPS Tower today! Great setup to enable #TeamSPS to continue winning. I love the conference room names from Women Who Code. The text on the quiet room desks? EDI. The team moves in soon! 🤩🙌

Empty conference room with rows of white chairs with blue seats, multiple wall-mounted displays, and colorful striped carpet

Office break room with red bar stools along a window counter, a coffee station, dark island, and a Grace Hopper display on screen.

Open office workspace with pink chairs, wood desks printed with EDI data, monitors, and a black wall covered in math equations.

Conference room with a large oval table, blue rolling chairs, wall-mounted display screen, and wood bookshelves

Glass-walled office huddle room named Joan Clarke with two coral chairs, a round table, wall-mounted TV, and pendant lamp.

Modern training room with white tables grouped in clusters, white and blue chairs, two large display screens, and multicolored carpet.

Conference room with oval table and blue chairs beside a Grace Hopper display panel in a modern office

Oct 23, 2019 ∞

Mark O’Leary and I shared context and excitement with one of our teams as we continue our adoption of Scaled Agile practices. #TeamSPS

Gray-haired man in glasses and sweater addresses a large seated audience in an open office space with a Business Context slide on screen behind him.

Oct 6, 2019 ∞

I’m very happy that SPS Commerce and #TeamSPS are able to sponsor and volunteer at Hack the Gap again! This is a great organization and event hacking the diversity gap! 👏

Hack the Gap sponsor recognition board listing host sponsors Saint Paul and Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator, transformation advocates including SPS Commerce, and community connectors including SPS Commerce branded table at a hackathon event covered with promotional swag including packaged items, pens, brochures, and stress balls.

Aug 22, 2019 ∞

2019 TeamSPS Kubb Tournament

We had a great time with our 2019 #TeamSPS Kubb Tournament today! We had 20 teams having a lot of fun, getting to know their teammates better, and enjoying a gorgeous day outside!

Group of people playing Kubb on a grass lawn between office buildings on a sunny day, with wooden blocks scattered across the field

Groups of people playing Kubb on a sunny urban lawn, tossing wooden batons at upright wooden blocks near downtown buildings.

Group of coworkers celebrating outdoors on a grass lawn during a Kubb tournament, with wooden game pieces scattered around them.

Groups of people playing Kubb on a green urban lawn with wooden pins set up, deck chairs labeled Turf Club nearby, and city buildings in the background.

After the round robin our #TeamSPS Kubb groups split into brackets with a winner in each bracket! We kept track old school, just like most tournaments do!

Handwritten single-elimination tournament brackets on white paper spread across an outdoor folding table, labeled by division including Distinguished, Senior, Principal, Associate, and Staff.

After the 2019 #TeamSPS Kubb tournament a bunch of folks hung out and played, you guessed it, more Kubb! Next year we might introduce Mölkky at the end!

Seven smiling people posing together outdoors near a wooden Kubb king piece, with a parking garage in the background.

See: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, and 2018 tournaments.

Aug 7, 2019 ∞

DevOpsDays MSP 2019 - Day 2

DevOpsDays MSP has done a fabulous job creating an inclusive event. Hearing from so many diverse voices is refreshing. With all of that goodness, it is jarring when sponsors address the group with “hey guys”. Make sure your message reaches the entire audience.

Day 2 opening keynote for DevOpsDays MSP from John Engelman on Cascading Failure. DevOpsDays MSP

Man standing on a conference stage presenting a Target-branded slide titled A Day A Week A Month in a Cascading Failure at a DevOpsDays event.

“We were super confident in that answer, and we were super wrong.” John Engelman. I’ve been there many times in incidents. Whenever you are “super confident”, use that as a trigger for what you might be missing.

Speaker on a conference stage at devopsdays presenting a graph about cascading failure, with live captions displayed on a side monitor and an audience seated in the foreground.

Great SPS Commerce overview from Nate Anderson, Sanjesh Kumar, and Olivia Alberts sharing some of the amazing things our team does, the powerful tech we use, and our learning culture! Come join our team! #TeamSPS 🤩

Three presenters on a conference stage at DevOpsDays showing a slide featuring Fruit of the Loom, Target, Amazon, and Walmart logos

Three presenters stand on a conference stage at DevOpsDays with an SPS Commerce SPS Gives Back slide projected behind them

Three presenters on a conference stage at DevOpsDays, with a large screen showing an SPS Commerce Gives Back slide featuring a group photo and live captions below.

Martez Reed now sharing with DevOpsDays MSP about Intelligent Deployment Pipelines.

Speaker presenting Intelligent Deployment Pipelines by Martez Reed on stage at a DevOps Days MSP conference with live captions displayed on a side screen.

Next up at DevOpsDays MSP, Serena Tiede covering Security Logging and the keys to making it work well.

Speaker on stage at a DevOpsDays conference presenting a talk titled Timber Security Logging at UnitedHealth Group, with audience members seated in the foreground.

Alice Goldfuss bringing an awesome closing keynote “The Container Operator’s Manual” for DevOpsDays Minneapolis!

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays presenting a slide titled The Container Operators Manual with Twitter handle alicegoldfuss, audience seated in foreground

Super engaging, enlightening, and humorous container talk from Alice Goldfuss! 🙌😁

Speaker on a blue-lit conference stage at DevOpsDays presenting a slide reading Do you want containers or a blog post, with live captions displayed on a side screen and an audience seated in the

Aug 6, 2019 ∞

DevOpsDays MSP 2019 - Day 1

I’m so happy that SPS Commerce can join these amazing sponsors in support of the organizers of DevOpsDays MSP to create an amazing event for our community!

DevOpsDays MSP 2019 sponsor banner listing Platinum, Gold, Silver, and A La Carte sponsors, with attendees networking in the hotel ballroom behind it.

We have a bunch of #TeamSPS members representing SPS Commerce at DevOpsDays MSP today!

Four people at an SPS Commerce conference booth with banners reading Infinite Retail Power and Our Growth Is Your Opportunity.

Four people wearing conference lanyards smile around a tall round table with stickers and drinks at a tech conference.

Bridget Kromhout kicking off DevOpsDays MSP! Bridget is such an amazing contributor to our great community!

A speaker stands at a podium on a large conference stage in front of a packed audience, with a screen displaying devopsdays MSP 2019 and a city skyline illustration.

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DevOpsDays MSP keynote from Liz Fong-Jones @lizthegrey on reducing complexity in systems.

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting slide titled Detangling complex systems with compassion and production excellence

“Heroism isn’t sustainable.” Liz Fong-Jones. This is more than an individual thing, it’s a culture thing. Always beware of hidden incentives that encourage heroism in your culture.

Speaker at a DevOpsDays conference podium beside a slide reading Heroism isn't sustainable with a cartoon superhero illustration and live captions visible.

“Lack of observability is a systemic risk.” Liz Fong-Jones. This is a strong way to position observability, and frame it in a broader context. Very good keynote to start DevOpsDays MSP!

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a slide reading Lack of observability is systemic risk to a seated audience.

Yolonda Smith bringing always important security topics to DevOpsDays MSP!

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a talk titled Secure Enough with live captions visible on a side monitor.

Yolonda Smith with valuable perspectives on security. Teams need to acknowledge and address all of these perspectives in order to move forward effectively to create more secure services.

Speaker in colorful dress and red headwrap presents a Perspectives on Security Venn diagram slide at a DevOpsDays conference.

Slide titled Perspectives on Security showing three overlapping circles labeled security, product, and engineering listing friction points each team faces

Jessica Kerr sharing Principles of Collaborative Automation at DevOpsDays MSP.

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a slide titled Principles of Collaborative Automation to a seated audience.

I learned a new word from Jessica Kerr “symmathesy”. Mutual learning in living systems. I like giving this powerful process a definition. This is key to continuous improvement. 🤔

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a slide titled Symmathesy showing a diagram of interconnected learning parts, audience seated in foreground

This is a great message from Jessica Kerr, with reference to John Allspaw, success begets complexity. That complexity delivers value, and more success. Repeat. 👍

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a slide showing the words success and complexity with arrows between them, audience seated in foreground.

Nivia Sedai sharing about the Ghost in the Machine, the boundaries of AI and ML in our technology systems.

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting Ghost in the Machine slide about programs running contrary to expectations, audience seated in foreground.

Nivia Sedai with a powerful message highlighting many examples of the negative impacts from the lack of diversity in technology teams. Also a strong message around technology ethics.

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a slide reading You have agency; use it! to a seated audience in a decorated ballroom.

Jul 31, 2019 ∞

The 2019 SPS Brew-Off was great as always! We have amazing home brewers in #TeamSPS, and it’s a great opportunity to Give Back! 🍻

Two men in white shirts and lanyards serve craft beers at an outdoor event table, smiling and chatting with attendees.

Jun 11, 2019 ∞

Great night for some Minnesota Twins baseball! ⚾️

Target Field during a Minnesota Twins game with fans filling the stands and the Minneapolis skyline visible beyond the outfield.

Great night of baseball with #TeamSPS Tech Managers! ⚾️💯

Large group of coworkers smiling and posing in stadium seats at a Minnesota Twins baseball game

Our #TeamSPS members from Ukraine and Australia getting in the Twins spirit! ⚾️🤩

Group of fans cheering at a Minnesota Twins baseball game holding red and blue foam fingers in stadium seats

May 15, 2019 ∞

We had a fabulous #TeamSPS Tech Leader outing tonight making a delicious meal at Kitchen Window! 🍽 We were joined by some awesome guests too! Such a great team, and a super fun evening! 🌮🍔🍺 Teams the cook together, win together!