Continuous Testing Practices Gap Assessment
Continuous testing is an essential part of DevOps. To get the maximum value from continuous testing, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s practices for DevOps and determine a strategy for improvement. Gap analysis provides valuable […]
Continuous Testing Practices – Part 3
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing to help with understanding what continuous testing is. In my consulting work, I find it necessary to use 15 categories of practices to assess an organizations’ continuous testing capabilities. Given […]
Continuous Testing Practices – Part 2
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing to help explain what continuous testing is. In my consulting work, I find it necessary to use 15 categories of practices to assess an organizations’ continuous testing capabilities. Given the […]
Continuous Testing Practices (Part 1)
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing (CT) to help those understand what continuous testing is. In my consulting work, I find it necessary to use 15 categories of practices to assess an organizations’ continuous testing capabilities. […]
Learning ‘The Third Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Improvement
I refer to the third way of DevOps–continuous experimentation and learning, as simply continuous improvement. In some sense, there is no way to learn the third way of DevOps because it is, by definition, a moving target. It does make sense to discuss what is needed to create a continuous learning organization for DevOps continuous […]
Learning ‘The Second Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Feedback
As indicated in my prior blog Learning the ‘First Way’ of DevOps–Continuous Flow, many organizations are struggling to realize well-engineered DevOps, even the ‘first way’ of DevOps – continuous flow. The first way of DevOps, continuous flow, is the foundation for DevOps. Once mastered, an organization will naturally want to master the second way of […]
Learning ‘The First Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Flow
Many organizations are struggling to realize well-engineered DevOps, even ‘the first way’ of DevOps – continuous flow. DevOps is an evolving body of knowledge. There is no one-stop shop that covers all roles and the complete range of skills required for DevOps. A DevOps-competent workforce requires an ongoing commitment to DevOps skills development and mastery. […]
7 Step Transformation Blueprint for SecDevOps
The struggle for continuous software security is obvious, but the solutions are not. As I indicated in my prior blog, SecDevOps is the Solution to Cybersecurity, a security-first mindset, coupled with SecDevOps-specific practices, provides an opportunity to achieve true continuous security. But, in reality, how can an organization accomplish SecDevOps? This blog explains how to […]
Le Morte d’Arthur— A DevOps Engineering Journey
The stories of King Arthur have fascinated me from the time I was young. Now that I am old DevOps_the_Gray, I enjoy relating the story of King Arthur to my experiences with DevOps. I hope you find this blog interesting and relevant too. Imagine a boy raised in Britain by the wizard Merlin who becomes […]
SecDevOps is the Solution to Cybersecurity
Anybody paying attention to world news will notice that the threats and risks perpetrated by cybercriminal actors, in many forms, is a serious problem on the rise, affecting individuals, organizations and nations daily. The cybersecurity threat space is indeed alarming and growing rapidly. The cybersecurity solution space is struggling to keep up. After all, there […]
DevOps Practices Gap Assessment
Using DevOps to continuously deliver software has proven value for organizations that are on a path towards digital transformation and continuous improvement. To get the maximum value from DevOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s […]
DevSecOps Practices Gap Assessment
DevSecOps practices are essential to deliver software safely and securely withinDevOps value streams. To get the maximum security protection from DevSecOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s practices for DevSecOps and determine a strategy for […]
Unified Enterprise DevOps Platforms Eliminate Bottlenecks
Nearly all enterprise digital transformation projects include moving software to DevOps processes and platforms. The effort, cost and time it takes to be successful with these transformations depend on a lot of factors, but one thing stands out: as indicated in my white paper Unified Enterprise DevOps Platform Why? How? And What?, “An enterprise with many […]
Continuous Testing: The Quest for Quality at Speed
The DevOps goal to reduce lead times by accelerating software deliveries presents a serious challenge for assuring the quality of the software that is delivered. As I indicated In my SlideShare post, “The Quest for Quality at Speed,” testing activities span end-to-end software value streams and often account for more than 50% of bottlenecks. The […]
The Surprising Secret to DevOps ROI
As a result of my many years of DevOps consulting, I have discovered a simple, but not well-understood, secret ingredient that drives ROI for all the Three Ways of DevOps. Measuring and optimizing return on investment (ROI) for DevOps is not well-understood. It is a proven fact that DevOps, when engineered well, delivers tremendous value […]
Why a Unified Enterprise DevOps Platform is Necessary
As a senior DevOps consultant working with large organizations over many years, I have been involved in more than 70 digital transformation projects, with hundreds of applications. While many things have changed over time, one thing has been a consistent source of problems that presents a formidable impedance to these transformations. The diverse number of […]
Measuring the Value of DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS)
The late great W. Edwards Deming, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant said, “In God we trust. All others must bring data.” The point is, if you want people to trust your information, then you need to present measured data. This is true for countless circumstances. As a DevOps consultant, I am often asked by […]
5 Steps to Successful DevOps Culture
The late business management guru Peter Drucker coined the phrase, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” and the phrase has endured through the years. Your people must be passionate and enthusiastic about executing business strategy, or it – and your business – is doomed to fail. But remember that company culture itself needs a strategy to […]
DevOps Myths Debunked
Leaders need not be DevOps experts, but they need to distinguish DevOps myths and realities to lead their digital transformation projects. As I indicated in a recent article, Engineering Practices Can Overcome DevOps Challenges, leaders need to set an inspiring DevOps directional vision for the organization, and proactively stimulate and sponsor team activities toward goals. […]
Engineering Practices Can Overcome DevOps Challenges
When I think about the challenges of DevOps transformations, I love the viewpoint expressed by Ryan Harmon, strategic accounts manager at Trace3: “DevOps is a complex maze that has many leaders frustrated. In many large enterprises, ‘DevOps’ is simply a buzzword they are striving to achieve but struggle with what the end state looks like […]
Rapid Strategic SRE Assessments Accelerate IT Transformations
A Strategic SRE Assessment is critical in helping organizations successfully transform traditional IT operations to SRE Site reliability engineering (SRE) is rapidly becoming more important to organizations that need to scale IT operations while maintaining or improving reliability and security, and to modernize operations to match the growth of DevOps in the organization. Without sufficiently […]
27-Factor Assessments Lead to Success With DevOps
October 2019 will mark the 10th anniversary of the first DevOpsDays, where the term “DevOps” began to catch on. In the world of information technology, 10 years is a long time and it is quite evident based on the amount of change that has transpired since then. To name a few, we have seen the […]
Relevant Continuous Testing: The Primary Key to DevOps
My recent blog, “7 Pillars of DevOps,” identified seven essential best practices areas that make up successful DevOps and explained that the pillars are not silos, but rather foundations that need to be kept in balance. One of the pillars is continuous testing (CT). For well-balanced DevOps, CT performs tests that are fast enough to […]