Enterprise DevOps
A Three Step Roadmap for Enterprise DevOps
The extremes of application release velocity are converging in the enterprise. Whereas Fortune 500 enterprises may have historically taken months to years for each release cycle, they are exploring new approaches from ...
The right answer was “process”
The question is "why is there no one-size-fits-all automation and orchestration solution"? Automation, a component critical for continuous deployment particularly as it extends beyond app operations and into the broader environment to ...
The ROI of Enterprise DevOps
Ever since the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, I can never think about any technology development without hearing Cuba Gooding Jr as professional footballer Rod Tidwell screaming out, “Show me the money!” So ...
Digital Transformation with Agile and DevOps – Something “Wicked” This Way Comes
Our world is full of wicked problems, like climate change, urban planning and social injustice. They’re called wicked because they’re hard to recognize, define and solve. Furthermore, complex interdependencies mean solving one ...
Q and A with Carmen DeArdo: DevOps at Nationwide
Just before the IBM Interconnect show in Las Vegas last week, we had a chance to speak with Nationwide’s Carmen DeArdo and talk about some of the challenges he has faced at ...
How Deploy Frequency Impacts Infrastructure Stability
I recently took some time out from reading the Internet to read a very specific piece of research I found on the Internet from IDC - its "DevOps and the Cost of ...
Streamlining no matter how many speeds your IT operates at
IBM InterConnect 2015 took over the Mandalay Bay and MGM Grand conference centers this week with an estimated audience of more than 20,000 attendees. The event is filled with DevOps evangelists, hybrid ...
The Ultimate Endpoint of Enterprise DevOps
There’s a reason we so often use the word “journey” when we talk about DevOps – it is a critical aspect to a practical approach to DevOps. While we focus a lot ...
Comparing DevOps to traditional IT: Eight key differences
You can make the argument that in the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) value is created in two places. First, when the software is created (development) and second, when the software is ...
Why are we still asking, “Can DevOps work here?”
It’s easy to get tired of buzzwords, especially in the software development and testing world where they’re so prevalent. But while it’s easy to blame the thought leaders and evangelists for creating ...
Variable Speed DevOps
I was lucky enough to be the host of a Google Hangout last week with some very smart folks who will be speaking at IBM InterConnect 2015. One of the topics that ...
DevOps and Organizational Debt
I recently published a blog on the Perficient Digital Transformation blog entitled "Is Cloud & DevOps Factored Into Your Digital Transformation?" In that blog I discuss the concept of organizational debt and ...
