Why Financial Companies Should Embrace Automated Testing
The drive to deliver new functionality to customers faster is being felt across every industry, and especially so for financial markets that are under pressure from new market entrants. Adopting agile development and continuous delivery can help financial institutions gain an edge and beat competitors to market, but it’s vital that quality is not forgotten. […]
Murphy’s DevOps: Is Security Causing Things to Go Wrong?
“Rugged DevOps,” “DevSecOps”—am I missing any? About the only thing more abundant than the volume of terms emerging to describe different facets of how security supports DevOps are the number of vendors now claiming to provide products and services that “solve” related security problems. There have been some interesting offerings we’ve seen emerge at this […]
TechWell Announces Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps West in Las Vegas
Over One Hundred Learning and Networking Sessions To Be Held Over Six Days Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) February 15, 2016 Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps West will be held June 5–10, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada at the iconic Caesars Palace. The conference offers access to more than one hundred learning and networking sessions over […]
DevOps Brings IT Out of the Shadows
One of the biggest threats to organizations today is shadow IT—unsanctioned and unknown technologies and applications being employed by maverick users. Shadow IT represents a security risk for your company—the IT department can’t defend and protect technologies and assets it doesn’t know about—and should be eliminated. One of the best defenses against shadow IT is […]
Are You Ready for Your DevOps Transformation?
You’re done with missed release deadlines, long release cycles and risky releases. If your objectives are continuous application delivery to achieve fast feedback loops and reduced waste, DevOps practices provide the means to reach them. DevOps is all about agile transformation, which reaches beyond agile development into production to achieve continuous delivery. DevOps practices provide help […]
You Say You’re Doing DevOps, But What Does That Mean?
From recent conversations I have been having, it is clear that DevOps is top of mind for many. Out of the 40 or so customers I have spoken with recently, the overwhelming majority brought up DevOps during our conversation. They believe they ought to do DevOps, but they wanted me to help them define it […]
The Big DevOps Question: How Do We Get Started?
Every conversation I have with clients regarding DevOps eventually reaches a point where the client wants to know my recommendations for getting started with a DevOps program. Some have already embarked on a DevOps program, but want me to critique their approach against what I see others doing. Others simply don’t have a clue how […]
Can We Stop Talking About DevOps?
I first heard the term “DevOps” from a friend in the software business when I was working at Dell HQ in Round Rock, Texas. He recommended I read “The Phoenix Project,” by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford. I did read it and I found it a fascinating story, but as a longtime network […]
3 Ways Manual Processes are Risking Your Development Cycle
During my two decades in IT, I’ve seen the demand for Agile and its associated methodologies grow. At the same time, however, I’ve witnessed the database being left behind. DBmaestro, where I am co-founder and CTO, recently conducted a survey titled, “Database Deployment & Development Risks,” to gain insights into the risks associated with various […]
A Force Awakens
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An obituary to a Managed Test Service
1st October 2020, Enterpirseborough , F500 Inc street Managed Test Service, 66, died Friday, 3rd October, 2020 at the Delivery governance war room in the IT head quarters of F500 inc. following a terminal illness caused by a lifetime burden of 34 SLA’s, debt burden of 44 KPIs , 29 painful claw backs by procurement […]
DOES 15 – The 7 habits of successful DevOps
Dipping back into the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 well, today’s feature is my talk with Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft. Sam presented on the transformation he oversaw at Microsoft’s Visual Studio moving to Visual Studio Online. It is the story of COTS to SaaS and all of the pitfalls and idiot taxes Sam and team paid along […]
CA World 2015 wrap up
Just back to my room from the Sheryl Crow/Fall Out Boys concert that ended CA World 2015. It was a full two days of information and news showing how CA Technologies is evolving to remain relevant in the changing world of ITOps and Development. There was certainly lots of new things to report as CA […]
What is expected of software developers vs QA testers during development?
“What is expected of software developers vs QA testers during development?” Michael Oubre – Agile evangelist, practitioner and trainer, and Marc Hornbeek – DevOps evangelist and thought leader, share their views on popular questions regarding Agile and DevOps from their respective viewpoints. Michael: The thing we do in agile is to train the team to […]
Can We Stop Talking About DevOps?
I first heard the term DevOps from a friend in the software business when I was working at Dell HQ in Round Rock, TX. He recommended that I read The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford. I did read it and I found it a fascinating story, but as a long-time […]
Does Agile need continuous integration?
Michael Oubre – Agile evangelist, practitioner and trainer, and Marc Hornbeek – DevOps continuous testing evangelist and thought leader, share their views on popular questions regarding Agile and DevOps from their respective viewpoints. If you are doing Agile do you need to do Continuous Integration? Michael: From an Agile perspective, let’s consider your company decided […]
SAFe and DevOps – a recipe for a delivery smoothie!
DevOps brings you the deep pink color of fresh strawberries and SAFe the rich, creamy texture of blueberry yoghurt! ‘Agile’ delivery is not always smooth. If not managed well, it can be a nightmare, as those of us who have seen rogue agile processes run amok know. That’s where the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) comes […]
Five often expressed obstacles to enterprise IT innovation
Business leaders know, for their business to succeed in the years ahead, that their IT and developer teams need to innovate. But surveys show that too often the IT teams may not be able to deliver the innovative value that the business seeks. Have a look out our recent Q&A, The IT mandate: Be a […]
Digital Disrupters – Building a DevOps Leadership Profile
While the advancement of DevOps methodology remains fairly nascent for many organizations, an ever-expanding class of leading practitioners are evolving a wide range of related best practices. Beyond the well-worn concept of “unicorns” – the scant few organizations that stand as mythical examples of DevOps nirvana – this broader set of early adopters have begun […]
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 team magically create weapons out of old spare parts. Add a catchy theme tune – and voila – classic viewing. In many […]
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 of us who work in the world of DevOps or organizations that have already embraced DevOps there are still many businesses out there […]
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 biggest challenge remains creating performance metrics that address both IT and larger business initiatives. There’s no question that APM is one of 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 software. Varun and I spoke about why IT leaders need to ensure that their databases are performing optimally. On top of that Singh […]