Inclusion, Collaboration and DevOps: Seeing the Bigger Picture

February 26, 2018 by Chris Corriere 0 Comments

The last half of 2017 was pretty amazing. I wrote a brief post about the Inclusive Collaboration Summit I attended in London last July. Sallyann Freudenberg and Katherine Kirk started this campaign to raise awareness around neuro-diversity in tech. With respect toward the silence experiments I kept my original post very short. It was great […]

6 Must-Haves When Using Chat for Incident Management

November 16, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

Over the last few years, teams have realized the benefits of sharing and distributing knowledge in chat applications such as Slack. Today, teams are extending the use of these applications beyond collaboration by embracing ChatOps. ChatOps empowers teams by bringing complex day-to-day operational work into shared chat channels. If done correctly, it drastically reduces context […]

How to Succeed with DevOps by Outsourcing Software Development

November 8, 2017 by contributor 1 Comments

The DevOps journey can be successful when you use offshore outsourcing software partners, but it requires careful attention from your IT leaders. The old saying, “The only constant is change,” has never been more true for software development, whether your company is a SaaS provider or a manufacturer of discrete products that rely heavily on […]

How an Integrated Tool System Helps Implement DevOps

October 12, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

DevOps is the marriage of application development teams with system operations teams, their philosophies and actions. In an agile environment, development, testing and operations all must work together to meet frequent iterations, releases and delivery goals. This calls for a collaborative development environment that supports data orchestration with other lifecycle tools. The article will explain […]

AIOps: Managing the Second Law of IT Ops

September 22, 2017 by Dominic Wellington 3 Comments

Or, why IT systems keep breaking The tension between the two halves of DevOps is long-standing, going back long before the term was even invented. What underlies the split between Development and Operations is a fundamental difference, like an actual physical law. Let’s explore that analogy together. IT Ops is fundamentally a constant fight against […]

Quality Culture, DevOps Forge Better Connections Between IT, Lines of Business

September 15, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

The automation of software development does not obviate the need for a collaboration between IT and the lines of business, or the development of a culture of quality on the part of the development team. Achieving that quality culture requires more than a change in mindset as developers seek to align quality with the speed […]

From Waterfall Incident Management to Collaborative IT Operations

August 16, 2017 by Dominic Wellington 2 Comments

What can Ops learn from Dev in the transition from sequential, reactive IT support to real-time DevOps? One of the signature ideas of DevOps is right there in the name: the blurring of the boundary between the historically separate worlds of Development and Operations. On the face of it, this seems like a great idea. […]

Tailoring Enterprise Collaboration: Strategies for Success

June 13, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

In the age of SCRUM, Agile and DevOps, developers collaborate with their peers and colleagues more than ever before. Many developers already use a variety of collaboration tools on a daily basis, such as a team messaging application, an online discussion forum, or an open code repository. But while developers love to collaborate, it can […]