When building a house, work is done in teams. This work is managed by a foreman, supervisor, or general contractor, but let’s restrict ourselves to the teams doing finish work, and a ...

Being a developer in today’s technology landscape is tricky. While the proliferation of different cloud services makes it faster and simpler than ever to turn ideas into reality, this rapid development comes ...

The season of DevOps is upon us, if not only related to widespread adoption, then certainly in terms of industry emphasis. This week, at the CA World ’16 conference, my colleagues and ...

One of the great misconceptions of service management is what it means. This also is the reason why so many service management initiatives fail. Consider a call center, for example, with many ...

There are many concepts in Lean manufacturing that have applicability with software development "factories." One example is the Andon Cord. The Andon Cord concept involves using signals and alerts to indicate that ...

If you lead big honkin’ software development projects at a big honkin’ enterprise, you’re probably doing everything you can to shift QA left. That’s because the earlier you discover defects and shortfalls, ...

Many established enterprises are stuck in reverse. Dragged down by legacy IT systems and sclerotic software workstreams, these businesses simply cannot adapt and get up to speed in the continuously changing, high-velocity ...

Two technology innovations of the past decade have fundamentally changed how IT works and given rise to the “DevOps” phenomenon. Before we dive into what DevOps is and how IT organizations should ...

As companies such as Amazon and Google rapidly innovate to deliver new services, traditional service providers recognize that change is necessary to keep up with shifting customer expectations. Given the pace at ...

As customers, longstanding and new, the way we interact with banks and manage our personal spending, borrowing and saving is experiencing drastic change. New digital offerings in the form of apps and ...

Many have asked me what I’m looking forward to at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016 in San Francisco—it is the third year of our conference, and I think it will be our best ...

What can data scientists learn from DevOps? A lot, actually. By applying DevOps principles to the world of big data, you get DataOps, which streamlines data analytics. If you're reading this site, ...