Quality Engineering Has DevOps and Agile in the Driving Seat
As opposed to the traditional software development lifecycle (aka waterfall), today’s Agile and DevOps-based software development process is more outcome-oriented. The unrelenting pace of the changing market landscape has made the hybrid, Agile plus DevOps way of software development absolutely critical in addressing customer demands and staying competitive. The focus on Agile and DevOps is […]
DOES19 London: Bridging the Communications Gap
At the cornerstone of any successful DevOps transformation is effective communication between all members in an organization, from the business leaders, IT leaders, middle management and out to each individual member on their teams. Yet, so many times in organizational change, we see a monumental communication breakdowns occur. So it’s no surprise that every year […]
Optimism Matters and so Does a Sense of Wonder
I’m a terrible video game player. For as much fun as people have with me at the table for Table Top RPGs (TTRPGs), I’m a pain when playing video games. As a guy with a masters in computer science, and years of experience ranging from embedded drivers to enterprise architecture, I see bugs or bad […]
From Automated Cloud Deployment to Progressive Delivery
Your team is on its agile journey and you can more or less track a deployment from a story, through git commits, to an automated builder, to an artifact repository, into a container and then onto the cloud. Or, in fact, any other of the many valid variants that lead you to believe your deployments […]
How the World Measures DevOps Quality
With continuous everything, knowing whether each new release will ultimately enhance or undermine the overall user experience is essential. Yet, most of today’s go/no-go decision still hinge upon quality metrics designed for a different era. Every other aspect of application delivery has been scrutinized and optimized for DevOps. Why not re-examine quality metrics as well? […]
DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2019 Programming Highlights: What I’m Looking Forward To
I am so excited about the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) Las Vegas. As a programming committee, we seek to make each event better than the last, as measured by how much we learn and how it helps enable the DevOps Enterprise community to achieve their goals. As a programming committee, we thought London 2019 was our […]
Free DevOps Training at DOI’s Global SKILup Day
The DevOps Institute (DOI) is hosting a global training day called Global SKILup Day on Dec. 10, 2019. It’s a free virtual event and they have arranged for some of the brightest minds in the DevOps space to speak/train during the course of the day. Why global? They truly are planning on a follow-the-sun approach […]
The Real-Time Innovation Dividend
Time is compressing. The attention span of individuals and organizations is becoming ever shorter. There are only brief windows that can be devoted to any given transaction. Expectations around situational knowledge, updated in real-time, are compounding. Customers expect the applications they interact with know where they are, what they are looking for and what their […]
DevOps Needs Collaboration and a Safe Place for Success
When it comes to DevOps adoption, “[many organizations] tell a similar story,” said Scott Van Kalken, systems engineer at F5 Networks. It takes more time and effort to develop the right culture than you probably expect. Van Kalken has a long history in tech, including development and operations roles, and has spent several years practicing […]
Common Pitfalls of Software Development and Tips to Avoid Them
In business, no one wants to plan on failure. However, when it comes to software development, failure is more common than most managers want to admit. In particular, many managers and executives fear large software-based projects are especially likely to fail due to the complex nature of these projects and the nuanced reality of the […]
Chaos Engineering for ITOps
Chaos engineering (CE) is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. This approach is becoming commonplace in software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But how would its application extend to ITOps? CE for ITOps offers a similar framework for stress-testing […]
The Secret to Digital Transformation is Human Connection
We know digital transformation is no longer an option for today’s organizations–it’s a requirement. End-users have come to expect an easy, digital-native experience, whether they are ordering a pizza or automating an entire network infrastructure, which is why businesses and governments are throwing trillions of dollars at new technologies and related services. Organizations must build […]
Top 3 Challenges of DevOps Adoption
Customer expectations continue to relentlessly rise as new technological opportunities emerge. Today, organizations demand products and application features are delivered and implemented wherever and whenever needed. Everywhere you look, execution is at risk of falling behind imaginations and business imperatives. That is, of course, unless DevOps is starting to wield a strategic and philosophic influence. […]
Implementing DevSecOps Goes Beyond Technology
While technology is crucial for implementing DevSecOps, it is the people, processes and culture that drive it forward. As recently as last year, a survey found 58% of technology leaders cited existing culture and lack of skills as hurdles to being able to embed security testing and evaluation within software development processes. That report found […]
DOES19 London: Effective Team Management Foments New Ways of Working
In the IT space it feels like we collectively begin asking and ruminating on the same question all at once, chewing on all the possible answers and outcomes. Recently, one such question has begun popping up with more and more frequency: “How can we help teams, and especially product teams, be more effective?” While more […]
Upping IT Skills: IT Pros Cite Significant Challenges
Anyone who works within enterprise technology learns very quickly that if they want to stay relevant to the workforce, they’ll need to continuously learn new skills. But it’s certainly hard keeping up with new skill training while also keeping pace with day-to-day work demands. This is probably why a survey earlier this year from IT […]
Online Experimentation: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Recently we had the honor of giving a talk at this year’s Turing Festival. The festival, which is held in Edinburgh, is one of Europe’s biggest cross-functional tech conferences and is named after the late Alan Turing, who invented the Turing Machine. This invention cracked the Nazi Germany Enigma code, helped to end World War […]
5 Key Skills Developers Need to Master in Order to Thrive
The promise of the cloud, in its essence, allows the IT department to focus on generating business value rather than spinning cycles fixing and managing infrastructure. However, the cloud is not a one-size-fits-all proposition, and many early adopters are finding it challenging to move to the cloud. There are well-documented cases of huge budget overruns, […]
‘DevOps in the Multicloud World’ Virtual Summit Puts IBM Z in the Spotlight
Got mainframes on the mind? Wonder how you can unlock the value of the platform for mission critical workloads? Trying to figure out where IBM Z fits in an increasingly cloud native IT environment? Those questions and others will be discussed in an upcoming virtual summit that explores the role of IBM Z —within the […]
Legacy Systems Prove to be Digital Transformation Headwind
In a survey of 450 digital transformation leaders, a sizable 73% of respondents said that, through digital innovation, they have made significant or better improvements to the end-user experience. Twenty-two percent report much more significant results than that, they self-reported as having transformed or completely revolutionized end-user experience. That’s considerably higher than the 15% in […]
Why DevOps is Like Football
When it’s done right, DevOps is an impressive feat. You have groups of professionals all melding together as one large team working toward a common goal. The groups–and the individuals themselves–perform their roles and hand off tasks to each other at just the right times. They follow pre-designed plans, but they constantly tweak those plans, […]
How to Overcome Resistance to DevOps Implementation
The number of businesses adopting DevOps to make software releases happen faster without compromising on software quality continues to grow. Within the next five years, the DevOps market is expected to reach almost $13 billion. If you are among those who’ve decided to make a shift to DevOps, you are likely to experience resistance coming […]
Before We Burn the Martech Silo
There’s an ongoing debate about where marketing technology (martech) should sit in an organization. Does it live with the CMO, the CIO, the CXO–a hybrid strategist with both IT and marketing background–or some collaboration? As technology use grows, it’s tempting to move martech under another role. Before we burn the martech silo, like how McDonald’s, […]