Tag: agile
Building a Winning Software “A-Team” with DevOps
The 1980’s TV show The A-team was brilliant. Four ex-commandos with special skills who help the oppressed. Throw in some over-the-top violence where no-one gets hurt, together with some tech wizardry where ...
The business benefits of DevOps
As DevOps has become more of a mainstream concept it seems like there’s less need to define what it is or explain what it does. As prevalent as DevOps is for those ...
Native Integration of APM Driving DevOps Maturity
With applications performance monitoring established as one of the fundamental cornerstones of today’s DevOps methodologies, it’s easy to overlook the reality that effective instrumentation of such tools remains extremely difficult. Specifically, the ...
DevOps Chat: Varun Singh, CTO of ScaleArc
I recently had a chance to sit down with Varun Singh, CTO and founder of ScaleArc. ScaleArc was recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor and is the leading provider of database load balancing ...
Roll-up your sleeves – Launch a SAFe® Agile Release Train
Most organizations often begin their agile transformation with a series of low risk, stand-alone pilots. While these pilots may prove that teams can adopt small team agile practices such as “Scrum” or ...
Impacts of DevOps on Testing
I always come across a standard question from testers in any DevOps related presentation. "Will DevOps remove the need for Testers?” A simple answer is "No". DevOps is not going to replace Testing as ...
Five things to understand about Enterprise DevOps Solutions
There is a lot of buzz in the industry around selling and consuming DevOps. Unfortunately there isn’t the same level of understanding or even a common definition about DevOps between consumers and ...
Steer SAFely – Driving collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams
This is the second blog in the DevOps – Scaled Agile series. In the first blog, Scaling Lean and Agile for the enterprise: All hands on keyboard!!!, we discussed the characteristics of ...
Librato Seeks to Unlock DevOps Application Monitoring
As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring ...
Scaling Lean and Agile for the enterprise: All hands on keyboard!!!
Lean and Agile methodologies are nothing new, but in the last few years we have seen the emergence of several frameworks combining elements of both. The IBM DevOps framework is one clear ...
Tailoring DevOps to your IT: A case study for SAP
I am frequently asked if DevOps principles can be applied to legacy environments such as SAP. They clearly can, with some tailoring. But you should be aware of certain constraints. An agile ...
How ADLM Gobbles Up DevOps
The Next Evolution of Software Delivery Automation In the 1980’s and 90’s, the business software landscape was dominated by a diverse list of cutting-edge companies such as Best Software, i2, Brock Control ...