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Continuous Testing: Shift Left and Find the Right Balance
You may have heard the term “continuous testing,” but are struggling to understand what it is and how to achieve it. Project teams need to improve their ability to test and perform test automation when needed, not just when possible. Service virtualization allows teams to test earlier and more often in the life cycle, or […]
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Showing 1–15SAFe and DevOps – a recipe for a delivery smoothie!
DevOps brings you the deep pink color of fresh strawberries and SAFe the rich, creamy texture of blueberry yoghurt! ‘Agile’ delivery is not always smooth. If not managed well, it can be a nightmare, as those of us who have seen rogue agile processes run amok know. That’s where the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) comes […]
Roll-up your sleeves – Launch a SAFe® Agile Release Train
Most organizations often begin their agile transformation with a series of low risk, stand-alone pilots. While these pilots may prove that teams can adopt small team agile practices such as “Scrum” or “XP”, however these pilots often don’t help prove that your organization can adopt agile at the enterprise level. Scaling agile to support larger […]
Steer SAFely – So how do you do it?
This is the third blog in the DevOps – Scaled Agile series. In the previous blogs, we discussed the characteristics of a successful enterprise agile transformation and provided specific guidance on applying lean and agile practices at an enterprise level. We covered the “why” and a bit of the “how” at a high level, making […]
Steer SAFely – Driving collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams
This is the second blog in the DevOps – Scaled Agile series. In the first blog, Scaling Lean and Agile for the enterprise: All hands on keyboard!!!, we discussed the characteristics of a successful enterprise agile transformation and described why engagement and commitment across all disciplines in the organization is not just optional, but required, […]
Scaling Lean and Agile for the enterprise: All hands on keyboard!!!
Lean and Agile methodologies are nothing new, but in the last few years we have seen the emergence of several frameworks combining elements of both. The IBM DevOps framework is one clear example. Combining principles of Lean and Agile into a single framework enables scaling of the core benefits to the entire organization, not just […]
The Calculus of DevOps
This is the second in a series of blogs, partnering with Lee Reid, who wrote the first installment “The Simple Math of DevOps” and Sanjeev Sharma both of who are outstanding DevOps Thought Leaders from IBM. I am picking up on Lee’s mathematical DevOps model to apply a calculus perspective, a “calculus of DevOps” if […]
Why DevOps for the database must include three way analysis
Deployment automation is critical to practicing effective DevOps. Without deployment automation, releases still require a lot of manual steps and processes. Processes and steps that aren’t reliably repeatable, are prone to human errors, and can’t be handled consistently with high frequency. However, the software best practices can’t simply be grafted onto database deployments. Unlike software […]
Five mistakes enterprises make while implementing automation
Automation, if done right, can add a ton of value to an IT organization. Benefits include speed, quality, and improved productivity. But only a few IT organizations have been able to truly reap the benefits of it. Why is that? What is it that these successful companies do differently while others continue to struggle? Here […]
How Continuous Delivery is Changing Software Development
When you start to implement a new methodology, it’s very easy to get bogged down by the specifics and lose sight of the overall goal. With Continuous Delivery, we see endless debate about whether to use Puppet, Chef, or Salt for deployment, or discussion about how to build a CD pipeline with containers. These are […]
Stop whining about shadow IT and do something about it
Much has been written about shadow IT at the business unit and employee level where the proliferation of cloud applications has all but eliminated IT’s control over what applications are used in their organization. The explosion of public cloud technologies has caused an identical revolt amongst development teams who no longer want to—or need to—wait […]
The Simple Math of DevOps
We are living in an information- infused society, much dependent on various technological innovations taking place all around us. In such conditions, as consumers become more connected, they are empowered with more information and choices. They expect quick and consistent information available at all times. Likewise, our business leaders expect their IT teams to build […]
Do Regulatory Auditors Hate Continuous Delivery?
In a world where superior customer engagement and other market imperatives depend on having the right code in production sooner rather than later, continuous software delivery is a competitive necessity But you can’t get code into production unless you properly test it. And you can’t properly test code without appropriate test data. And that’s where […]
Follow the Unicorn: Transform your Enterprise Applications
For those of us that work on Enterprise Systems such as the mainframe, the claims that the Unicorns (1) make, can be pretty astounding. Dozens and sometimes hundreds of releases a day from big companies like Netflix (2) and Etsy (3) are hard to comprehend. But look a little closer and you can see that […]
Webinar: Build, test and deploy mobile apps with back-end mainframe services securely in a hybrid cloud
You may already have a good understanding of the hybrid cloud and its benefits. But how do you get the value of the last three decades of investment in your backend infrastructure into the hands of your end users faster? In this webcast we will demonstrate how you can take advantage of the latest IBM […]