Shhhh! It’s a Secret
In one of our regular back-and-forth breaks, Lori and I were talking shop a week or two ago, and she shared an excellent report by GitGuardian with me. Frankly, none of the information in the report was a huge surprise for me–Git is filled with information that companies probably don’t want out there, but that […]
Agile Divide Between IT and Business Is Narrowing
A global survey of 1,350 business and IT executives conducted by Jigsaw Research on behalf of NTT Ltd., a provider of IT services, suggests organizations are a lot more agile in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there’s still a significant gap in terms of prioritizing agility. A full 89% of business and IT […]
4 Ways to Overcome Agile Transformation Obstacles
If an organization desires a successful Agile transformation, the first step is to shift its thinking from ‘doing Agile’ to ‘being agile.’ Unfortunately, a commonly shared belief that Agile is just a software development methodology keeps too many companies stuck in the ‘doing Agile’ mindset. This belief ties back to the principles of Agile thinking […]
How the Pandemic Renewed Respect for the Agile Mindset
Agile methodologies were introduced to us around 10 years ago. In that time, we have seen technology advance at breakneck speed and faced many new challenges in the way we work; arguably, never more so than in 2020. However, despite the abundance of change we have experienced, the core values of Agile have stood the […]
The Top Benefits of a Scrum Certification
The Scrum framework is a staple part of many businesses – and for good reason. The agile process is used to construct, deliver and iterate products and has proven to boost cross-functional teams’ productivity, as well as product quality. And, like most processes, Scrum can be mastered with the right training and commitment. Specifically, a […]
Best of 2020: Don’t Do Agile and DevOps by the Book
As we close out 2020, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our series of the Best of 2020. In software development, we talk a lot about the importance of Agile and DevOps. Agile aims for rapid releases, positively encourages involvement from customers […]
The Weakest Link in DevOps for Financial Services
Many companies in the financial services sector are making huge investments in IT transformation these days. They are embracing DevOps and agile best practices, modernizing legacy applications and moving their infrastructure to the cloud. In many instances, though, this significant investment of time and resources simply isn’t producing measurable outcomes that matter to the broader […]
DevOps Chat: Adopting Agile + DevOps in Large Orgs
In this DevOps Chat, Akshay Anand, ITSM product ambassador at AXELOS, and David Crouch, senior advisor at Beyond20, join Mitch Ashley to share best practices and learnings from introducing and adopting Agile and DevOps in large organizations. Akshay and David discuss overcoming change management challenges and obstacles to increase adoption. As usual, the streaming audio […]
ITIL 4 in the Age of Agile and DevOps, With Axelos
ITIL is well-established as the process, certification and information resource library for service management across many IT organizations globally. With the recent updates to ITIL 4, influences from Agile and DevOps are helping ITIL to expand and adapt to changes in ways to create software and build operations into the delivery process. In this DevOps […]
Bringing Agility to Mainframes in COVID-19 and Beyond
Of the many ways this pandemic has shifted resources online, financial transactions are among the most critical. With the use of cash and checks grinding to a halt, transactions generated with our devices are increasing, and most of them are being completed on a mainframe. It’s not hyperbole to state that mainframes—the systems of record […]
3 Ways Atlassian Usage is Evolving in the New Normal
Over the last half-year, the use of Atlassian’s tools is evolving and expanding COVID-19 has rapidly accelerated the digital transformation of businesses by several years. However, as companies shift to digital-only workflows, DevOps teams and the increasing number of departments they interact with face numerous challenges. Effective digital communication and collaboration are often vital to […]
Continuous Testing: Complementary to Agile and DevOps
Digital transformation brought about by quality software applications and robust hardware platforms helps to create a competitive advantage for enterprises across verticals and geographies. Now it is no longer about choosing between speed or quality of software but to incorporate both when delivering to customers. With Agile and DevOps being embraced by enterprises to stay […]
Review, Review, Review
Ossification is an issue in IT, and always has been. It is borne largely out of staff and management knowing what to expect from existing software/infrastructure, and the deep product knowledge that allows teams to make existing systems do what is needed. But this becomes a series of rocks that the ship of progress smacks […]
Survey Sees Increased Agile Adoption During COVID-19
A report published by Digital.ai, the parent company of CollabNet VersionOne, finds 43% of organizations have increased their reliance on agile application development methodologies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 15% saying it has increased significantly in the last 90 days. The report also notes 33% of respondents say they have increased or […]
What Is DevSecOps and How to Enable It on Your SDLC?
For the past three to four years, all the companies around the IT world have adopted agile and different application development methodologies that leverage the work for different departments or areas and helps them to develop new products and release new features to improve their processes and infrastructure. In this new Agile and DevOps world […]
Is Agile Methodology Right for Your Project?
I’ve read a few articles of late that have declared the end of Agile development. They are interesting reads for the most part, and they make some interesting arguments, but I see none of them as compelling. I do, however hope that this is the beginning of applying “Right Tool for the Job” to how […]
SRE Is the Most Innovative Approach to ITSM Since ITIL
For over a decade, ITIL has been the leading ITSM framework adopted by enterprises across the globe. So, what is driving a rapidly increasing interest in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as a service management alternative? In its own words, Google refers to SRE as its approach to service management: “The SRE team is responsible for […]
Cloud Center of Excellence: Pivot for Enterprise Digital Transformation
Across industry verticals, enterprise cloud adoption has increased significantly. Enterprises are leveraging cloud models to transform applications, infrastructure and operations. According to a survey by LogicMonitor, 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. This, however, is also giving rise to concerns across areas such as security, cost management, compliance, governance, lack […]
Pendulums and DevOps
I have long noted the trend of pendulums in IT, particularly in organizations with longer histories. Centralized IT will be achieved, its weaknesses noticed and a movement will begin to decentralize. Decentralized IT is achieved, and people remember its weaknesses, causing centralization. The same is true with speed of delivery versus quality. Faster will be […]
Microservices: The Advantages of SOA Without Its Drawbacks
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was the great hope of organizations decades ago when they sought to advance legacy system integration, reduce and bypass layers, and rapidly access the system of record. At the time, the existing solution was point-to-point integration, creating a brittle “spaghetti” middle layer that was hard to manage. This was replaced by […]
These Three Approaches Will Help Your Enterprise Be More Agile
Nearly every organization that tries to change its culture to be more agile and better adapt to changing environments discovers that it’s harder than it looks. Agile transformation can’t be superficial or only embraced by the IT department–it needs to be completely pervasive throughout the business. There is no one-size-fits-all approach or playbook that can […]
Why Is QA so Important in Executing a DevOps Implementation Strategy?
In a rapidly growing global digital landscape, enterprises are facing many challenges. These include changing customer behavior and the need to be in line with the latest technology trends. To address these challenges and to stay up the competition curve, enterprises are adopting a slew of strategies. These comprise expanding the capacity of processes, quick […]
Is COBOL Here to Stay? Five Signs IT is Ready to Modernize
With increased demands and challenges around compliance and regulations, plus growing expectations for IT to provide more value-added services, companies are looking for more flexible and collaborative options. Interestingly though, while some IT departments have updated legacy systems, COBOL code has continued to be a mainstay. In fact, COBOL just turned 60 and many are […]