Tag: agile
Will DevOps Kill IT Outsourcing?: Part 1
Part 1: DevOps and outsourcing like oil and water After nearly two decades of steady IT outsourcing for the sake of savings and efficiency gains, the shine seems to have worn off ...
The Whole Nine Yards with DevOps and Agile Operations
Growing up as a boy in Manchester, UK, football (ok, soccer to US readers) was everything to me. I vividly remember being herded into the stadium stands on cold rainy Saturday afternoons ...
The Next Wave of Software Delivery – Integrating Agile and DevOps for the Digital Enterprise
In the past five years business cycles have greatly accelerated, forcing companies to respond faster to customer needs and competitive demands. This trend has been driven by business adoption of consumer-oriented technologies like ...
Appster Must Produce Mobile Apps Using Nimble DevOps Practices (It Has No Choice)!
In order to meet the many challenges of producing loads of different app/server projects large and small in extremely rapid succession, Appster collaborates on, automates, and dashboards everything it can. “Unlike traditional ...
Best Practices to Prevent Scrum Failure
In my years of experience as a scrum master, I’ve encountered numerous situations where scrum has resulted in less-than-ideal outcomes, a Scrum failure if you will—not because the agile framework is flawed, ...
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ...
5 Ways Continuous Integration Reduces Risk in Development
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, "Continuous Testing," by our friends at Parasoft. There’s a lot of talk about DevOps and Continuous Integration in the tech ...
Continuous Testing: What exactly is it?
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. The aptly named DevOps practice of Continuous Testing synchronizes Testing/QA with Dev and Ops ...
Surprise! Broad Agreement on the Definition of DevOps
For the past few years, the conventional wisdom has been that DevOps has no agreed upon definition. Instead, everyone has their own interpretation. However, the conventional wisdom is wrong. While everyone supplies slightly ...
Documenting DevOps: Agile, Automation and Continuous Documentation
Chris Riley former GigaOm analyst, O'Reilly author, DevOps.com featured writer and founder of Fixate I/O has written an outstanding report on the key role documentation must play in the modern software development ...
DevOps Teams: Containers Will Help You Become Future Ready
Container frameworks are emerging as a superior choice to create, manage, and run distributed applications in a scalable and secure fashion. Docker’s growth is testimony to the fact. There are 100 million ...
The Business Value of Continuous Testing
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, "Continuous Testing," by our friends at Parasoft. Enterprise software development models have presented many innovative solutions for IT to align ...