DevOps Culture
DevOps and Collaboration: Fraternizing with the Enemy?
DevOps is all about collaboration, we hear. “You must collaborate,” say managers initiating DevOps adoption programs. HR make new posters declaring the corporate values “We value Collaboration & Teamwork.” Can’t fail! Then ...
How to Fix ‘Dark Debt’ in Your IT Organization’s Culture
Poor decisions, bad metrics, lack of communication can accrue dark debt in any company Buying a low-quality microwave meal from a gas station, kicking a sock under the bed before guests arrive, ...
Education in the Age of Automation
Automation is changing the nature of education and the ways people learn. More schools are using online learning to supplement in-class activities. In fact, some schools are completely online. Distributed computing on ...
Revisiting My Bet on DevOps
On Dec. 29, 2015, I bought some stock. It was a bet on DevOps that my wife kindly tolerated. Since then, the S&P 500 has risen 31 percent and my DevOps portfolio ...
DevOps: Build a Continuous Improvement Culture
DevOps was built around the concept of continuous everything. We even use it in many of the names—continuous delivery (CD), continuous testing, continuous integration (CI)—and it is a worthy goal to want ...
How to Cultivate a Loyal Developer Community
With the number of developer focused companies and products growing, building communities among engineers has become a key strategy to stay competitive. Augmenting and often surpassing traditional marketing techniques, this approach—although challenging—can ...
Puppet Report Sees Long DevOps Journey Ahead
A recent report published by Puppet suggests the level of DevOps maturity within most organizations is still relatively slight. In fact, most of the respondents reported high levels of manual work still ...

