Leadership Suite
The DevOps Management Perception Gap
The DevOps momentum is fierce in the enterprise today, as executives and middle management recognize the transformative power that continuous delivery of software has for a business. The message that DevOps can ...
DevOps Culture through the Prism of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow proposed in 1943 that healthy human beings have a number of needs arranged in a hierarchy, which he constructed in the form of a pyramid. The theory suggests that certain ...
3 Steps to Building a DevOps Team Focused on Customers
In most enterprises, Dev and Ops people inhabit different worlds, show scant regard for one another and communicate as little as possible—unless it is to vent about something done by "one of ...
Defining the Role of a SRE
Soft Skills are Just as Important as Technical Skills in the SRE role Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a relatively new discipline, having only been in existence for about 15 years. It ...
Enterprise Infrastructure: Adapt or Face Extinction
In my previous blog, I explored how new ways of working—DevOps, Agile, cloud and startup thinking—have brought in a tectonic shift in the ways of working of enterprises. For infrastructure leadership and ...
The Human Touch: The Key to Optimizing Your Software Value Stream Network
Software has no intrinsic value until it’s working in production and supporting a customer’s business initiatives. With that in mind, it’s imperative that organizations focus on how they reduce the time to ...
DevOps Chat: The CEO’s View with Derek Langone, XebiaLabs
This DevOps Chat features "the CEO's view" as seen by XebiaLabs CEO, Derek Langone. Derek is one of my personal favorite CEOs in the DevOps space because he is very articulate, to ...
Code Yellow: When Operations Isn’t Perfect
Every now and then, engineering teams will get into trouble for any number of reasons. Sometimes, explosive growth catches the team by surprise. Or, on-call has gotten out of control, with alerts ...
DevOps to the Rescue as GDPR Deadline Looms
The stakes are high: Organizations failing to comply with the European Union’s (EU) strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) face fines up to 4 percent of their annual revenues or €20 million ...
Early Automation: A Key Requirement for DevSecOps Success
According to the "2017 DevSecOps Community Survey," by Sonatype, almost 60 percent of the respondents consider security to be an inhibitor to DevOps agility, while more than 50 percent of developers say ...
DevOps Chats: Jim Gochee, Chief Product Officer, New Relic
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Jim Gochee, Chief Product Officer, New Relic. In his role at New Relic, Jim has seen years and years of evolution in digital transformations. Jim ...
Why Offshoring Software Does Not Work in the Agile Age
These days, even refrigerators can be programmed to tell you when you’re running low on a certain food or when something has expired. Washing machines, coffee makers and toasters all use software ...

