Three Manual Accessibility Testing Pain Points
According to industry research, the vast majority of IT leaders view test automation as the single most important factor in accelerating software innovation. This also applies to automated accessibility testing – a great first step for making websites accessible to persons with disabilities. The new breed of automated tools can catch nearly 83% of all […]
DevOps Trends to Watch in 2021
Engineers at fast-paced startups often wear both Dev and DevOps hats. Early in my career, as a developer at a sentiment-analysis startup, I was tasked with writing scripts to spin up servers, configure them, install necessary software and deploy the code we wrote. My custom shell scripts, Python scripts and cron jobs did all the […]
The Evolution of the Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC)
The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) is crowdsourced, vendor-neutral and designed for individuals, teams and organizations who want to baseline their current DevOps state, identify the next target state, gain insights into how to improve their organization and team capabilities and measure and accelerate continuous improvement during their DevOps journey. The assessment models five DevOps […]
How to Use the Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC)
The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) is crowdsourced, vendor-neutral and designed for individuals, teams and organizations who want to baseline their current DevOps state, identify the next target state, gain insights into how to improve their organization and team capabilities and measure and accelerate continuous improvement during their DevOps journey. The assessment models five DevOps […]
How lulu Became a Lemon: A Digital Transformation Fail
Many people sometimes have a tough time figuring out what exactly digital transformation is and why it’s so important. I want to tell you a real-life story of how a once-respected brand, lululemon, has failed the digital transformation journey and, as a result, may fail in a new retail landscape. The story starts innocently enough […]
How To Address DevSecOps Skills Shortages
“If it’s scarce, it drives the price up,” said McAfee director of systems engineering Sahba Idelkhani. And DevSecOps talent is scarce, and expensive. Restrictions on international travel are having an effect on immigration in some countries, notably Australia. But there’s practically nothing employers can do about that. But some aspects of the supposed skills shortage […]
Manufacturing Workers Eager to Digitally Upskill
Anyone who has worked in machining within the past 70 years knew that the future of machining was automation. In the 1940s, computer pioneer John T. Parsons and engineer Frank L. Stulen invented, via a contract with the U.S. Air Force, numerical control milling machines. The machines were designed to help the Air Force produce […]
Cooperative Gaming: Software Teams’ Secret to Success?
Trust falls and team backpacking trips are out — cooperative gaming is in. Don’t think embarking on group Minecraft missions could help deliver great software products? Think again. A 2019 BYU study found a 20% increase in office productivity after just 45 minutes of gaming. Software engineering is a mentally taxing endeavor, and many developers are […]
DevOps Jobs Remain in High Demand, Survey Shows
There’s good news for those interested in a career in DevOps or development — there are plenty of opportunities. And there’s even room for those with unconventional backgrounds, according to a newly released report from CodinGame. The CodinGame Developer Survey 2021, which is based on responses from 15,000 international developers and HR professionals, found that […]
Despite the Pandemic, DevOps Salaries Rose in 2020
Puppet today published the results of an annual global DevOps survey that found, despite the downturn in the global economy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, most DevOps professionals saw their salaries rise in 2020. However, for the first time since Puppet started collecting this data, DevOps professionals working in the life sciences, health care […]
LogDNA Adds Usage Quota Tools to Help Control Costs
LogDNA announced today it will enable IT teams to apply usage quotas to help rein in log management costs. Tucker Callaway, CEO, LogDNA, said as applications become more complex – thanks, in part, to the rise of microservices – the amount of log data that a DevOps team can collect has significantly increased. IT teams […]
Value Stream Management Consortium Makes Debut
A consortium dedicated to advancing the adoption of value stream management best practices is being launched today with backing from Digital.ai, HCL Software, Plutora, ServiceNow and Tasktop. The Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC) will create an open community around which organizations that are seeking to expand DevOps workflows and processes across functions and organizations can […]
Helping Bring Balance, Diversity to the IT Workforce
It’s a fact: Minorities and women traditionally have been underrepresented in the IT space. According to the Brookings Institute, less than 7% of computing and math-related jobs are held by people who are Black and Latino. And while women are faring better, they still only represent about 30% of the workforce in computer and mathematical […]
How to Respond to Rising Cloud Costs
As organizations ascend to the cloud, their cloud expenses are floating to the same lofty heights. But are all cloud costs necessary? The answer is a resounding no — there’s a lot of waste. In 2020, organizations wasted $17.6 billion on idle cloud resources and cloud overspending, according to ParkMyCloud. Data egress, upgrades and subscriptions […]
Why Your Next CIO Will Be a CPO
Here’s what the transition to CPO means for everyone in IT Over the last 20 or so years, the evolving role of the CIO, or chief information officer, has been a hot topic of conversation in most large enterprises. It’s a topic that doesn’t just affect those breathing the rarefied air of the C-suite but […]
Future-Proof Your Product Development Life Cycle
In product development, change is vital. In fact, some might say that product development is the embodiment of change. Continuous improvement keeps products from becoming stagnant, which, in turn, keeps companies afloat. While change is important, it’s not always helpful, especially when it involves the management of employee attrition and retention. Over the last year, […]
AIOps Builds Organizational Efficiency, Survey Finds
Enterprises entered 2020 with big plans. Post-pandemic, AIOps could help them achieve those goals, according to a new research survey from Digitate and CorporateLeader. Enterprises entered 2020 with the best-laid plans; many had efforts lined up to expand their use of cloud services and continue their steady efforts to digitally transform their businesses. Then the […]
How Shift-Left Testing Improves DevOps Efficiency and Software Quality
Shift-left testing is the key to deliver quality software at speed. Developers shift testing left to shorten long test cycles, prevent defects and mitigate risk earlier in the development cycle, rather than in later stages, to avoid rework and delays. In this interview, IBM Z DevOps Testing Lead Nathan Cassata talks about shift-left testing, the […]
Amid COVID-19, Developers Struggle to Keep Pace
It’s been a wild ride for digital innovation. It’s also been a stressful year for developers. At most organizations, the pandemic has increased reliance on digital experiences (and its programmers) exponentially. IT spending is rising, and competition is skyrocketing. More than ever before, the pressure is placed on developers to meet rigorous demands. A recent […]
Q&A: Embracing the Power of the Mainframe with Deloitte
Mainframes are still in high demand and continue to be critical to modern IT strategies because of their power, security and reliability. The 2020 Mainframe Market Pulse Survey, conducted by Forrester and commissioned by Deloitte Consulting, dives into the role of the mainframe as a strategic component to hybrid cloud environments. Forrester interviewed 261 business […]
Oracle Includes GraalVM Support in Java SE Subscription
Oracle announced today it is adding a GraalVM Enterprise virtual machine for building Java applications to Java SE Subscription at no additional cost. Donald Smith, senior director of product management from the Java Platform Group at Oracle, said GraalVM Enterprise provides developers with a high-performance application runtime, built on Oracle Java SE, that includes a […]
Transforming Your Digital Transformation
Change is difficult, so most companies pull the bandage slowly, hoping to avoid the hard, painful part – especially with regard to digital transformation. But in the corporate world, cautious change inevitably leads to entropy. Progress gets made in one department at a time, at the expense of others. Leaders turn over, priorities shift, plans […]