Healthcare Increasingly Embracing DevOps
Speed and efficiency rank high as reasons why among respondents to a survey of healthcare organizations that have adopted DevOps While the novel coronavirus pandemic has hurt many industries, few have faced the immediate difficulties that the healthcare industry has had to manage. While trying to deliver care during one of the most significant healthcare […]
GitLab Makes Economic Case for DevOps Platform
GitLab is advancing its case for integrating as many DevOps processes as possible on a single platform by making available an economic analysis that claims organizations can improve application development and delivery by 87%, resulting in a savings of more than $23 million. Based on an analysis conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of GitLab, […]
Pandemic Provides IT Teams a Chance to Shine
Few would argue that the novel coronavirus pandemic hasn’t dramatically changed enterprise IT. This is especially so when it comes to both the management of IT as well as the very relationship between IT staff and the rest of the business. But how many would have predicted that the relationship between IT and business leaders […]
Survey: DevOps Haves Benefiting Over Have-Nots
A global survey of 400 global IT executives and practitioners conducted by Longitude, an arm of Financial Times Group, on behalf of New Relic suggests organizations that have embraced best DevOps practices are starting to enjoy material financial benefits over rivals that have not yet made similar investments in modernizing application development processes. The survey […]
Engineering Productivity Lessons From COVID-19
The world became a different place post-COVID-19 and how we work, communicate and collaborate has been redefined, possibly forever. Our company has a distributed team across the U.S. and India for development and operations. When “shelter in place” hit the entire world, we were not sure how we’d be able to execute our projects, customer […]
Jump Over the Hidden Barriers to Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is critical to success in the new normal. Here’s how to achieve it in an uncertain economy Bit by bit, we’re reopening the economy. No one knows how long it’ll take to get the economy back on track or what kind of regulations there will be to keep everyone safe. But we do […]
Designing Engineering Teams for Scale
As a senior engineering manager who has taken many companies from just a few engineers to entire teams at global scale in hypergrowth, I have learned quite a few lessons along the way on coping with growth and scale on a diversity of fronts. I put my thoughts down to help senior technical people with […]
Has the Pandemic Made DevOps Tougher or Easier?
How has COVID-19 impacted the way DevOps professionals approach their work? The current, unpredictable economic climate as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a glaring need for organizations to be able to do more with less. They have fewer resources and even less margin of error now to maintain customer relationships, keep […]
Product vs. Project: Balancing Management Roles for Success
Many businesses today rely on project management to ensure that all the activities that are required to help the business function are able to do so efficiently. The importance of project management is ingrained into many businesses, and doesn’t need to be justified—or does it? For software development companies, product management also needs to be […]
Data and Tools Don’t Solve Problems, People Do
When developing software, many managers believe that data and tools will solve all their problems. If they just have enough data or the right data analysis tools, development and delivery become automated and decisions are made without human input. But in reality, humans are a necessary part of the process. There are a few pieces […]
SREs Tasked With More To Improve Digital Experiences
The digitization of the enterprise has never moved so swiftly, and never have enterprise environments been as complex to manage. And, never have more businesses been as dependent on their infrastructure and operations being unfaltering. According to a new survey and accompanying report from Catchpoint and the DevOps Institute, site reliability engineers (SREs) and teams […]
How To Build a Culture of Resilience Through Good Habits
Good habits are hard to form. I’ve been listening to the audiobook “Atomic Habits“ by James Clear on my morning runs, and something struck me. At Gremlin, along with our software, what we’re trying to promote are positive new habits for our customers. According to the author, one of the primary reasons new habits don’t […]
How to Reduce Engineer Burnout During COVID-19
Burnout is increasingly common during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to cope effectively The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we all work, connect and live. Many teams have been forced to transition their work into their homes and to learn ways to organize and execute that they aren’t used to. For product and engineering […]
COVID-19 Long Tail Budget Impact
Technology budgets have shifted dramatically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study from online CIO networking and information hub, Pulse. The pandemic, and its resulting shutdown, will likely continue to have a substantial impact on technology budgets for some time. The initial budgetary impact was substantial. When COVID-19 first arrived, […]
Report: Confidence in Digital Transformation Lacking
Results of a recent survey conducted by the Corporate Board Member Institute shows a majority of respondents see their organizations’ digital transformation efforts aren’t keeping pace with the current business environment. The survey polled more than 200 directors of public companies in February, before the global COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, and the results […]
Work from Home: Changing Enterprise Risk and Careers
In recent weeks, there have been a slew of organizations announcing that their work from home policies will be extended through the end of the year such as is the case with Google and Facebook, or perhaps indefinitely such as Twitter and Square. It’s good news to many technology workers who, according to a recent […]
Surviving Through the New Normal
As enterprises move from the first phase of the pandemic to the reopening phase, they’re going to have to determine what tech investments going forward will provide the most value in the their new normal. Emad Georgy, founder and CTO at consulting firm Georgy Technology Leadership, said that while overall tech spending will remain down, […]
Need for Increased Training — Strained Budgets Strain Enterprise IT Teams
As enterprises have increasingly embraced cloud, hybrid IT environments and DevOps methodologies, many of the old siloes associated with IT departments have crumbled—while demand for training and skills that reflect new technology requirements have risen considerably. This new reality was reflected in the findings of a new survey from IT management software provider SolarWinds, and […]
Coronavirus Impact: Enterprises Must Focus on What Works
As the economic slowdown continues, CIOs, CFOs and enterprise technology teams continue to grapple with frozen budgets and how their enterprise will keep their operations functioning as they attempt to move forward with crucial digital transformation efforts, and possibly shelve those initiatives deemed less critical. How are CIOs deciding what projects get postponed? Many projects […]
Despite Downturn, Enterprise IT Budgets Remain Intact
A survey of 137 IT operations leaders at companies in the U.S with at least 500 employees and an annual IT budget in excess of $5 million finds a surprising amount of resiliency at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted April 1 by OpsRamp, a provider of IT operations tools, the survey finds more […]
Metropolis Now: The Two Worlds of Employment in the Age of Automation
Current events have revealed that there are two worlds in the employment landscape. One is digital, the other analog. For the most part, those in IT—the digital workers—have been unaffected by the spike in unemployment due to the economic side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, it doesn’t mean they’ll be untouched in the long-term. As […]
The Way Forward: Digital Resiliency Wins
As we wrote in Digital Transformation: Digitally Resilient Organizations, digitally resilient enterprises have built themselves business-technology platforms that are elastic, agile and can correctly position themselves to securely meet current business demands. These enterprises are also constantly learning from their data and adjusting as markets, workforce and customers demand. These enterprises have also eliminated the […]
Is It Time to End the Software Metric Madness?
We have all heard the phrase “What gets measured, gets managed,” often attributed to Peter Drucker—interesting note about this quote, Drucker didn’t say it. In the DevOps space, or application development and delivery generally, this quote is often used as a justification to measure things like deployment velocity, bug fixes, lead time and so on, […]