Leadership Suite
DevOps Ethics: The Danger of Unethical Code
The accident could not have come at a worse time for Uber. Already under scrutiny following several high-profile lawsuits for sexual harassment, intellectual property theft and other accusations that played at least ...
Do Your Engineers Need a Degree? If So, You’re Missing Out on Great Hires
For more than a decade, tech team leads have lamented the fact that software engineers are among the toughest jobs to fill. But in some ways, their frustration is self-inflicted. It is ...
Empower Agile Teams with a ‘Bell Curve’ Approach
There’s no feeling better than ending a project on a high—until you notice the mountain of work looming ahead for your next project. At those times, it may seem hard to start ...
When DevOps and ITSM Collide: Mistakes to Avoid
In many ways the DevOps movement evolved as a reaction against the worst elements of IT service management (ITSM). IT leaders wanted to get from under the yoke of overly complex processes, ...
The Struggles DevOps Administrators are Up Against
DevOps has quickly gone from being a niche concept to a widespread practice that is gaining traction rapidly in both large and small organizations. As it becomes a key part of many ...
Manual Processes and Silos Complicating DevOps Deployments
The DevOps concept largely originated in 2009, as software and IT organizations were beginning to adopt Agile methodologies. It came on the heels of a movement to integrate lean manufacturing concepts and ...
DevOps Abandonment: Reasons Not to Give Up
The Never-Ending Story When a new process or methodology comes along—particularly when one gets a lot of attention like DevOps has—there always will be failures. I'm not talking about those always-present group ...
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 ...
From Thought to Leadership
Thought leadership is a term that those of us in the industry hear a lot. A thought leader is a person who has ideas/thoughts that push the edge and brings great ideas ...
The Importance of Soft Skills in Engineering
In college, professors regularly told us that in the real world, we need to be able to work in groups. As a young skeptical undergraduate, I naturally rolled my eyes every time ...
Reinventing Talent Acquisition, DevOps Style: 7 Ways to Become a ‘Destination Company’
Just as brilliant drummers have their pick of bands, top cloud-native developers and project managers can be choosy about their employers. They’re the rock stars of the business and they know it ...
Ops: The Other DevOps
Much of the conversation around DevOps, including right here on DevOps.com, is about helping developers get easier access to production systems, increasing agility by shortening release cycles. Most of the time, this ...

