DevOps Hiring: What Do You Need?
IT has long had a problem with hiring. I’m not certain where it started; most of us blame HR, and that’s probably incorrect, but gives us someone to blame. It’s that we post jobs with insane requirements. Sometimes this is done to keep the applicant pool down, but most of the time it is a […]
Successful Strategies for Hiring Full-Stack Developers
Full-stack development is a complex web programming discipline involving multiple levels of web design and coding. Due to the complexity of the skill, it may be difficult to strategize a method of attracting a full-stack developer. Full-stack developers are the full package—they understand the development of both the front end and back end of a […]
How Nailing Predictability Can Double the Size of Your Business
In a rapidly changing world, predictability has never been more powerful. It’s also never been so underrated. While it is easy to think about predictability in terms of repetition or even monotony, predictability in business means being able to correctly estimate how long it will take to complete a project and how risky it is. […]
Don’t Let Your DevOps Transformation Be a Parade of Tools
Choosing the right DevOps tools should be a careful, thoughtful process. On May 12, 1848, a store owner named Sam Brannan held a “one-man parade” to announce the start of the San Francisco Gold Rush. “Gold! Gold from the American River!” Brannan shouted up and down the market street in San Francisco. He held his […]
Using Trade Studies in Vetting Tool Stacks
Adding to your tool stack should entail more thought than, “Start your free trial today!” It’s great when there is an application need and cloud-based tools are easily grabbed with a few clicks. However, surveying alternatives before making a tool stack change can prevent costly mistakes. Trade studies can help vet best-fit tools for evaluation. […]
The Top 5 Ways DevOps Fails – and How to Prevent Them
The working hypothesis for a Gartner report on how to avoid failure with your DevOps effort is that, unless the trajectory changes, “Through 2023, 90 [percent] of DevOps initiatives will fail to fully meet expectations.” The reason? You could boil it down to management not fully understanding DevOps tenets and nuances—things such as targeting business […]
Should Your Company Hire Remote Full-Stack Developers?
Is your company seeking to hire a qualified full-stack developer? It seems like an easy enough task—create a job listing, read resumes, conduct technical interviews and make the hire. Finding engineers who understand every layer of the stack is difficult, however. Companies compete for the best and brightest full-stack developers and, unfortunately, they are in […]
The Value of ‘DevOps Engineer’ as a Title
Now that DevOps is proliferating in the enterprise (many companies including Disney, Nike and Walmart, for example, are all on the adoption train) the term is starting to creep up more and more in job titles. This is challenging organizations to consider the significance of DevOps Engineer as a role and the value of having […]
Why Hiring Top Web Developers is a Good Idea
Web developers are a great addition to every organization. Having your own web developers to help you create web applications and websites can be invaluable to companies of every size. If you happen to be a software development team, they are indispensable members of your team. Because web developers are in such high demand, hiring […]
What DevOps Can Learn from High Reliability Organizations
High reliability organizations are organizations that work in areas that are very hazardous or complex, and yet manage to have a lower accident rate than what would be normal for that environment. So what can DevOps and DevOps practitioners learn from the research of high reliability organizations? David Woods and Sidney Dekker both have done […]
How to Become a Great Engineering Manager
I wrote recently about the attributes of a 10x software engineer and a 20x one. Consequently, I received a few comments suggesting I create a similar list for engineering managers. I checked online and found a few articles, but none conveyed a full list in my mind. If you consider that software development efficiency has […]
DevOps Transition: The Cultural Commitments and Challenges
Enterprises can achieve certain levels of success by filling a need in the market, hiring skilled teams and utilizing cutting-edge tools and technologies. However, to set themselves apart and chart a course for long-term success, they need to address the values, beliefs and behaviors that make up organizational culture as carefully as they address business […]
4 Questions to Ask a Web Developer During an Interview
Web development is a fragile process. You need talented web developers to make truly beautiful sites with seamless user experiences and fast loading speeds. Without experienced web developers, creating a website that has both form and function is exceedingly difficult. Web developers have a great deal of responsibility. They understand design and they understand how […]
Too Many Projects: Breaking Initiative Overload
Initiative overload. Those words send a chill down the spine of IT leaders everywhere. Not only are overloaded teams juggling too many projects, morale is usually low, with long hours every week and no end in sight. Yet, leaders can’t arbitrarily kill or stall projects without suffering blowback from somewhere. If you’ve been tapped to […]
Tips for Successfully Adjusting to Life as a Project Manager
When you switch to a new work environment, it takes time to adjust to the new surroundings. As a project manager, you have to be ready to lead your team on the path to success while ensuring a good system of supervision and support. At this stage of your career, if you are feeling a […]
Let’s Bury Bimodal Thinking in Enterprise IT
We still hear a lot about mode-1 and mode-2 in enterprise IT. Like many other large enterprises, you might have adopted the terminology introduced by Gartner and use it every day to shape the way you deliver and operate technology. However, I have always been uncomfortable with the idea of bimodal, as it ignores architectural […]
Low-Code Application Development: A Catalyst to Digital Transformation
Low-code and no-code software development platforms have emerged as a focal point for CIOs, and it’s easy to see why. With an increasing emphasis on market disruption and continuous innovation across industries, tools such as these fit the bill in simplifying application development. Capabilities such as drag-and-drop integrations, out-of-the-box user interface (UI) templates and easy […]
DOES 2018: DevOps Providing Greater Business Outcomes, Yet Challenges Remain
The DevOps Enterprise Summit turned 4 years old this year, and what a difference four years makes: At the inaugural summit, perhaps a few hundred attendees participated. This year, there were roughly 2,000, according to the organizers. The energy at the first year’s event felt like that of a skunkworks team that knew they were […]
‘Yehbut’: Communication in the Age of DevOps
Effective communication is integral to success in DevOps transformations Ever since the dawning of mankind, or should I say “humankind,” we, as a species have invented ways to communicate with our fellow men and women and gender-neutral colleagues (and, soon to be included, robots). From grunting and bashing (bashing gets the message across quite effectively, […]
DevOps is Failing, But Here’s How to Succeed
As the Data Economy continues to gain momentum, many companies have turned to DevOps in hopes of achieving agility and velocity to compete and win. Whereas it’s no secret that DevOps can have a major impact on agility, what’s not widely known is that most DevOps projects actually fail. In fact, a simple search of […]
DevOps Consultant vs. DevOps Engineer: What’s the Difference?
Understanding the roles of a DevOps consultant and a DevOps engineer Every now and then, every business reaches a tipping point — the point at which it makes more sense to kick off the transformation of any sorts, rather than resist it. Let’s imagine a situation: You own a company that has released a groundbreaking […]
Modern Software Development Helps KPI Achievement
A new survey by Frost & Sullivan in collaboration with CA Technologies clearly shows that business executives believe modern software development helps them achieve KPIs. This is the latest in a string of surveys showing that modern software development practices such as DevOps result in higher-performing organizations, more profits and greater KPI achievement. Key findings […]
Study Reveals Pain Points for Enterprise Workers
While it may be an afterthought at some companies, C-suite leaders would do well to keep an eye on workforce trends to optimize productivity and work quality. A study commissioned by Workfront, a work-management software provider, offers insights into what many enterprise workers consider to be obstacles to getting their work done. You already know […]