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 …
Understanding the artifacts of a given technology component is critical to an enterprise-class DevOps service offering. Second-most critical is understanding the dependencies between given components. Testing helps illuminate those dependencies. For example, ...
Even organizations with a mature DevOps services model inevitably will hear from executive sponsors about the “need” for a dashboard for DevOps information. Organizations just starting to embrace DevOps won’t have the ...
For an enterprise with a deep DevOps maturity model, the initial “wow” factor of automation has worn off. At this point, the sexier concepts involve proving continuous improvement. As an example, our ...
Consider how much money your enterprise spends on audits. Smaller firms not subject to external regulation should consider how much money is spent on quality assurance—or the lack of it. A business ...
What is the difference between “leading” edge and “bleeding” edge? Being the first human being to advocate change. It is a virtual war with human nature to accept change. For all the ...
What would we die for in an integrated DevOps tooling solution—something that would make our operations partners stand up and cheer? Intelligent calendar awareness. The most fundamental construct of any release orchestrations ...
Spoiler alert: This article is not about inheriting your great-grandparent’s estate. It is rather about how embedding the principles of inheritance into the architecture of your chosen DevOps toolset can yield exponential ...
Let’s face it: Most organizations are still struggling to achieve the Nirvana of full gated automation. At first, we automate the core of our DevOps services, the build and the deployment disciplines ...
A highly functioning enterprise-class DevOps set of services has a fundamental goal of full automation. To be honest, having the right DevOps strategist (or visionary) leading this effort is as important to ...
I realize the title of this article may conjure up ideas about the impacts of entanglement from quantum computing, but no, we are not there yet. Instead, I am referring to the ...