How Low Code Is Transforming Software Development
Low code/no code is a business catalyst enabling technologies to automate processes and allowing developers to create real-time solutions for their business. With low code, businesses are able to build, customize and deploy apps with little to no coding. In this interview, Rackspace CTO Jeff DeVerter explains how low code is transforming software development and […]
Accelerate Digital Transformation With Low Code
This year many organizations have gone through a lot of changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses need to be more agile, adapt to the new normal and accelerate their digital transformation. We have a new future of work we need to be ready for, and that requires more automation than ever before. Low code […]
Empowering Citizen Developers With Low Code
Adopting low-code/no-code technologies enables businesses to quickly build and deploy applications. Low code empowers non-technical teams to build custom applications for their business and customers, accelerating their digital transformation efforts. In this interview, Kianda Chief Operating Officer Derya Sousa explains how low code accelerates digital transformation and empowers citizen developers. Derya is one of our […]
Low Code and Change Management with Max Rudman
Many organizations trying to accelerate their digital transformation are turning to low-code technologies to respond quickly to the constant market changes. Low-code technologies facilitate application development by offering drag-and-drop components that require little to no hand-coding. Low code creates a seamless integration between cloud platforms, tools and utilities. As low-code applications increasingly become a shared […]
Building (and Nurturing) a Product Team During a Pandemic
Building a successful product team is difficult under the best of circumstances. Building one during a pandemic raises the level of difficulty by an order of magnitude. But it’s not impossible. In early 2020, everything changed. For months now we’ve been scrambling, adapting to a new normal that none of us had the foresight to […]
Value Stream Management: Treat Your Pipeline as Your Most Important Product
When it comes to accelerating customer value, it’s dangerous to focus only on the development and delivery of a digital product. For many enterprises, most time is invested before a single line of code has been written. That explains the recent focus on value stream management (VSM)—it’s forcing us to think beyond Agile and DevOps […]
COVID-19, Digital Transformation and Teams: Q&A With Red Hat’s Kevin Behr
Even prior to the novel coronavirus pandemic, enterprise teams found themselves strained as they pressed to move digital transformation goals from whiteboard to reality. Then along came the big push to work from home and many transformations that were planned to occur years from now were put into action. So how are enterprise teams faring […]
Engaging Developers in a Post-COVID-19 World
The time for platforms to rethink how they engage developers is now How we communicate, socialize, look up information, work, shop and travel have all been transformed by platform companies. COVID-19 has only increased our reliance on these platforms, as people spend more time on the internet and businesses migrate from offline to online offerings. […]
Debunking Misconceptions About Engineering Management in 2020
2020 will be a year we all remember for so many reasons. It has been a year full of uncertainty and confusion, and also one in which misconceptions abound. In the world of software engineering, we feel this acutely as all eyes are on the engineering team to continue building innovative new products and solutions—maintaining […]
How to Build a Highly Qualified Cloud-Native Team
If you’re reading this, you more than likely are aware of the struggles involved in recruiting and building a team of technical professionals skilled in cloud-native computing technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus and service mesh. The Linux Foundation and edX’s “2020 Open Source Jobs Report” found 93% of hiring managers are having difficulties filling […]
Survey Sees Surge in Demand for DevOps Skills
The Linux Foundation and edX, a provider of an online learning platform, jointly released an annual report today that for the first time finds organizations are looking for more IT personnel with open source DevOps skills (65%) than developers (59%). Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux […]
How To Foster a Culture of Citizen Developers
What can leaders do to encourage a thriving environment of citizen developers in their organization? Over the last several months, businesses of all sizes have had to embrace rapid change, as have their workforces. When it comes to IT departments, even before the pandemic many were fielding requests to implement new technology, customize solutions to […]
Best Practices for Managing Remote IT Teams
With IT teams around the world adjusting to remote working while still struggling to maintain productivity and workflows, ensuring DevOps and Agile practices are in place has never been more important. And while typical DevOps professionals probably have significantly better remote desktop setups than most of their business peers, it’s how IT leaders manage these […]
Survey Uncovers Issues Even With Advanced IT Teams
Even in the best of times, IT teams struggle with myriad issues related to managing their application environments A survey of 1,000 C-level executives at software-as-a-service (SaaS) application providers finds that while the bulk of respondents are “highly confident” or “confident” that their cloud applications were running efficiently (91%), many also are still concerned about […]
BizOps Coalition Publishes Manifesto
The BizOps Coalition, which advocates for fundamental change in the way IT teams and business users collaborate during software development, today published a BizOps Manifesto framework that identifies 12 principles that focus organizations on business outcomes versus merely attaining and maintaining service levels. The goal is to close the historic divide between IT and the […]
Low-Code the ‘Connective Tissue’ of Transformation
Low-code is helping enterprises bridge siloed data, systems and workers for faster digital transformation Enterprises today are racing to digitally transform their business-technology systems. Those enterprises that create the most satisfying digital customer experiences and successfully streamline internal processes in their back offices will be rewarded with not only increased sales but a more agile […]
Eliminating Unconscious Bias in Tech Recruitment
For a more diverse workforce, businesses need to be aware of the role of unconscious bias in recruitment and take the necessary steps to remove it where possible The business case for diverse organizations is clear: A more diverse and inclusive business consistently delivers better results. From a legal perspective, with a variety of discrimination […]
Surveys Show COVID-19 Changes to Enterprises Likely Long-Term
The global response by organizations to the novel coronavirus pandemic has been transformational. A recent survey of more than 500 senior decision-makers in the UK revealed just how much the virus forced enterprises to innovate. The independent survey, funded by London-based tech developer Studio Graphene, questioned about more than 500 decision-makers within UK enterprises. Since […]
3 Steps for Organizational Agility in the COVID-19 Era
While COVID-19 forced a fundamental shift in the way we work nearly overnight, many companies have been able to continue operations with minimal disruption, effectively transitioning to a remote workforce with speed and agility. These organizations that were further along in their digital transformation journeys before the start of the pandemic faced minimal disruption in […]
Low-Code: An Oasis During Developer Drought
Key insights from Mendix’s 2020 Developer Drought Index You may have heard that Silicon Valley is in the midst of a developer drought. But the Valley is not alone; developer talent across the U.S. heartland has dried up. In fact, the top 10 U.S. counties with the highest developer demand per capita aren’t even in […]
Report: As WFH Took Hold, Few Adjusted Their Security Posture
In March of this year, how employees worked (if they were fortunate enough to be able to continue to work), changed dramatically following state-led shelter-in-place orders. At first, it was hoped the shift would be a matter of weeks. But as the pandemic continued and weeks stretched to months—and now with more organizations extending their […]
Managing Remotely: 6 Ways to Support Engineers
Managing remote engineers effectively comes with a host of considerations. Here are six to keep in mind Dear 2020, we’d like our deep work back. Our shift to remote work in 2020 moved the majority of face-to-face interactions into screens. Although initially we assumed this shift was a temporary adjustment, most of us now realize […]
Did Your Last DevOps Strategy Fail? Try Again
Let’s get one thing out of the way. DevOps isn’t a panacea—it isn’t magic, it isn’t a requirement for any enterprise and it won’t work for every team in every situation. Above all, it isn’t a yardstick by which an outsider can measure great operations, development or IT. And if anybody tries to tell you […]