Enterprise DevOps
Four key vectors for closing the DevOps feedback loop
A question I am asked frequently about DevOps – and a perennial challenge to all DevOps slide artists – is what exactly we mean by the idea of 'closing the feedback loop' ...
Right-Picking the First Project to Go DevOps On
One of the hardest things to do when starting a new initiative is picking the right project to work on. Should I start with App A? App B? Does it really matter as ...
Enterprising DevOps in Banking sector
"Shift left" is common in project life cycle management where the risks are mitigated early in the cycle by involving QA team early in the planning & development phase. In the IT ...
Ensuring security and managing risk in enterprise DevOps
Today's question in this recurring series comes from a developer in a typical large enterprise – risk averse, tightly controlled, highly secured – a major challenge to any DevOps transformation: Q. I ...
My Little Operations: DevOps is Magic
Bear with me, it will all make sense in the end. If you aren't familiar with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (because you don't have a child who watches it over ...
Encouraging a ‘big picture’ view of enterprise DevOps
Welcome to the latest post in a series where I answer some of the many questions on how to approach an Enterprise DevOps transformation at scale. Human issues continue to pop up ...
Provisioning versus Configuration Example
A few weeks back I wrote about the difference between configuration and provisioning noting, primarily, that there are differences between the two tasks. It remains an important distinction to make because it's ...
Being Agile is all about controlling the flow
For businesses, Agile is the new fashionable initiative as was E-business was in the 2000’s, Six Sigma was in the 90’s and Total Quality Management (TQM) was in the 80’s. If we ...
Specialists vs. Generalists for Enterprise DevOps
Welcome back to the DevOps.com series, 'Enterprise DevOps Q&A.' I have a backlog of Q&A in store, but don't let that stop you sending in more! If I can't answer them myself, ...
Making DevOps Work in Complex Enterprise Environments
Welcome back to the DevOps.com series, 'Enterprise DevOps Q&A'. Remember, if you have specific questions about Enterprise DevOps, let me know and I will try to answer them for you. Today's question ...
Keep Calm and Refactor Operations
Developers have been refactoring forever to gain efficiencies and avoid mistakes. Let's apply more than just theory to ops to do the same. There's about a million articles, blogs, tweets and infographics ...
Culture Debt
There has been a lot of talk lately about IT’s accumulation of “technical debt’. Technical debt describes necessary work from a prior deployment that was deferred in favor of other tasks. ...
