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Kristian Nelson

Kristian Nelson is a recent contributor currently working at InfoZen with a focus on DevOps, Cloud, Mobility, and SaaS. He is engaged in helping our government transition & embrace the change and benefits DevOps offers. Prior to this, Kristian worked as the senior product strategist and architect in creating an enterprise class DevOps service offering at the Bank of America. In his role, Kristian created and laid out a vision of new product features working with premier tooling vendors like Cisco, IBM, and BMC, from which the entire industry is still benefiting today. In addition, Kristian was also the primary product strategist at Bank of America creating a mobility service and transitioning the financial centers with new customer facing capabilities. Kristian has always been a visionary, holding senior leadership positions at companies like Quovera, Interliant, GST Internet, Gartner Group, and Lockheed Martin. Feel free to contact Kristian through any of the following …

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Enterprise DevOps

Interoperability’s Impact on Transparency

We fix what we see is broken. Providing “transparency” into the DevOps-enabled software development life cycle (SDLC) has tangential goals of quickly illuminating what is broken, running slower than it should or working flawlessly. Automated testing systems, for instance, are generally good at highlighting pass/fail results from integrated testing in the development process. Once they […]

Kristian Nelson · Mar 17, 2016
Enterprise DevOps

Changing the Culture of Metrics Analysis

You could say the development and operations teams gave birth to the idea of DevOps, as it is believed the chief benefits are garnered in those two functional disciplines. Because of this, metrics nearly always are conducted from the points of view of cost reduction, speed and efficiency. This makes perfect sense when business treats […]

Kristian Nelson · Mar 14, 2016
Enterprise DevOps

Measuring the Cost of Service Creation & Adoption

Adopting and implementing DevOps isn’t an overnight project. It takes time and effort to determine how it best fits into your organization—and what benefits your organization will realize as a result. Creating an enterprise-class DevOps service is typically done in one of three ways, depending on the organization, its leadership and its employees. Each has […]

Kristian Nelson · Mar 8, 2016
Enterprise DevOps

DevOps and the Near-Decapitation of Variability

Not all automation scales. One of the chief impediments of delivering an enterprise-class DevOps service is the decentralization of tooling choices—or worse, the methodologies within the tool for delivering CI/CD. If the methods used to deliver automation are as varied as the last engineer who created them, the spaghetti that ensues will not scale much […]

Kristian Nelson · Mar 4, 2016