Tag: Agility
Bucking Bank Bureaucrats: From Convergent Thinking to Divergent Doing
As customers, longstanding and new, the way we interact with banks and manage our personal spending, borrowing and saving is experiencing drastic change. New digital offerings in the form of apps and ...
Last-Mile DevOps: How to Keep Employees Happy
Chances are that your company is embracing DevOps to make sure you can get fresh, new digital capabilities to your customers ASAP. That’s because in today’s market, you either have to be ...
Mainframes and the Myth of Bimodal in DevOps
Rewind 20 years ago when we lived in a business world where big companies with unlimited resources beat out smaller, more strapped companies. The digital era—also known as the "age of the ...
The 3 Secrets to Overcoming the Agility-Stability Paradox
Regardless of whether an organization subscribes to a bimodal IT approach, one thing is clear: It’s more important, and more difficult, than ever to fight the agility-stability paradox. Today’s businesses must build ...
5 Leadership Keys to Enterprise Agility
Much like living creatures, organizations that can best adapt to their surroundings are the organizations that are most likely to thrive. For enterprises, that means being able to adapt swiftly to business ...
Redefining Product Value in the Continuous Economy
The internet is now more than 20 years old. It’s older than my kids, which is a scary thought. It’s older than Kendall Jenner. It’s older than Uber, Grey’s Anatomy and the ...
Hello, Security. Meet Agile
Illumio Chief Commercial Officer Alan S. Cohen recently wrote in his blog, "Go, Slow and No: Bringing DevOps Speed to IT Security," “There are reasons why security and risk professionals often react ...
3 Reasons Why Automation is Critical
We’re hearing a lot about the “outcome economy”—how businesses must be results-oriented to meet evolving customer demand and gain greater market share. Today’s marketplace is connected, always on and increasingly competitive. Companies ...
Performance Testing: The Unexpected Missing Link in DevOps
It is no secret that DevOps and continuous delivery goes hand in hand in the enterprise, but how do processes such as performance testing fit in to the equation? Many enterprises still ...
Does DevOps drive agility, or does agility result in DevOps?
DevOps is a hot topic. Hell, I’m writing this on a site dedicated specifically to DevOps and you’re reading it, so it seems safe to assume we agree on the general premise ...
Achieving business agility: a webinar with Chef and Rally Software
We recently hosted our first DevOps.com webinar with Chef and Rally Software. Using DevOps to Achieve Business Agility In today’s digital economy, leading companies are turning to software to deliver new services ...
Merging creation with operations: facilitated collaboration enables continuous delivery
So much has been written lately about the challenge of improving IT agility in the enterprise. The best sources of insight on why this challenge is so difficult are the CIOs, application ...