Early in Illumio’s history, I saw the future of DevOps security. The CISO of an electronics manufacturer brought us in to help secure a new support service that was built entirely in ...
Value Stream Mapping is a crucial step in assessing an organization's DevOps capability. We create a value stream map of the software development lifecycle early in any DevOps engagement, because it helps ...
Culture is critically important in an organisation. It’s all of the hidden stuff that actually matters. It’s what people value and it feeds through to how people behave when you aren’t watching ...
Deciding on two separate teams, or an integrated end-to-end team While a lot has been said about “the right way” to do DevOps, what we’re seeing in practice are two different approaches ...
Culture, Technology & Ecosystem Most enterprises approach DevOps adoption in a singular fashion: they use a bottom-up approach that is typically technology-driven and groups all considerations like, culture, metrics, processes and communication ...
For the past few years, the conventional wisdom has been that DevOps has no agreed upon definition. Instead, everyone has their own interpretation. However, the conventional wisdom is wrong. While everyone supplies slightly ...
Software development has undergone a massive transformation in the last two decades. From the first wave of breakthrough do-it-all PC applications such as Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Office, to the launch of ...
Over the next few years, I believe that legacy software is going to become a key factor which will start impacting organisations in fundamental ways, having a sudden and significant impact on ...
The rise of cloud computing has ushered in an era of unprecedented productivity for developers over the past several years. For those who have embraced this new world order, gone are the ...
Software quality matters. Adopting DevOps practices and increasing collaboration between Dev and Ops helps align teams around what matters to the business: Shipping product. Thorough testing is a critical step that is ...