Roll-up your sleeves – Launch a SAFe® Agile Release Train

September 15, 2015 by Contributor 2 Comments

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?

August 27, 2015 by Contributor 3 Comments

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

August 11, 2015 by Contributor 5 Comments

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!!!

August 5, 2015 by Contributor 1 Comments

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

July 23, 2015 by Contributor 7 Comments

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

July 23, 2015 by Contributor 1 Comments

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

July 21, 2015 by Contributor 5 Comments

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

July 13, 2015 by Contributor 2 Comments

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 […]