Business of DevOps
Let’s Talk About Ops: An ITSM Crowd Special
The ITSM Crowd is a regular hangout hosted by DevOps training provider ITSM Zone that covers many different IT and management topics. On Aug. 11, host Claire Agutter was joined by IT ...
Unconventionality within Constraints
What do dependency resolution, situational awareness and superheroes have in common? Meet Chris Corriere, a DevOps/software engineer at Autotrader speaking on creative ways to maximize usage of all of the above. Mark ...
DevOps: Keep the Business in Business
I remember when data centers were not the multipowered, multitelecommunication, hardware, software and people buildings they are today. My first was on the fifth floor of a parking lot and the cars ...
Multi-speed IT: The Reality of Enterprise Agility
Today's business demands the ability to change systems at an ever-increasing speed, but for many companies, including their systems of record have created a mismatch in development and operations practices between the ...
Separate but Equal: Not Equal and Not the Right Way
The DevOps Enterprise Summit in London provided another opportunity to speak to many clients about their organizations' DevOps transformations. The key message is, "It's all about people and culture," but how do ...
DevOps Can Counter Brexit Aftershocks
On June 23, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a referendum. The impact was immediate. The value of the pound has plunged. Stock markets around ...
Transforming the Annual Budgeting Process For DevOps
The annual budgeting and planning cycle is the one process that touches all of IT. It has impact on how decisions are made, teams are organized, work is delegated, projects are started ...
What is DevOps’ Business Value?
Intro: DevOps is About Business Performance It is important understand that DevOps philosophically has a system-level view of a business' performance. You don't hear this much—it's more difficult to write about than, ...
‘DevOps is a Lifestyle, Not a Title’
“DevOps is a lifestyle, not a title.” This is a quote from Ron Melanson, of Amazon, and I hope he won’t mind me sharing it here. It struck a chord with me, ...
Pay Down the Skills Debt Before the Technical Debt
When we talk about DevOps, we talk about addressing technical debt. We talk about how modern delivery processes and solutions might help you cure that technical debt of monolithic systems that are ...
State of DevOps Survey – The Ultimate Feedback Loop
If there’s any consistent criticism of the larger DevOps movement, it’s that the talking heads and industry gadflies are driving the conversation, not the people in the trenches. All the thought leadership ...
IBM BlueMix OpenWhisk Takes Infrastructure Out of the Equation
Thousands of people descended upon Las Vegas last week for the annual IBM InterConnect conference, where IBM shares its vision with customers and developers and makes big announcements. One of the biggest ...

