Tag: continuous improvement

Leadership is the foundation for all agility. I’ve written elsewhere extensively on a model that works well for the new environment in which we find ourselves: the need for tens or hundreds ...

Every year since mid-decade, it seems, one publication or another has declared it to be “the year of DevOps.” Allow me to make the case that it really will happen in 2020 ...

When we talk about best practices for software reliability, the conversation tends to focus on optimizing the applications themselves and the infrastructure that hosts them. The driving idea is reliability must be ...

Adopting DevOps means changes from how you build software to organizational processes and cultural behaviors. Large enterprises have even greater challenges to overcome, including supporting a large number of applications and addressing ...

In less than a decade, DevOps has become a buzzword of the IT industry, and enterprises are already reaping its benefits. But the implementation part still remains a question for many firms, ...

When we look beyond the fundamentals of tearing down silos and establishing greater collaboration, communication and transparency, DevOps is a label assigned to a framework of best practices and technologies that organizations ...

The working hypothesis for a Gartner report on how to avoid failure with your DevOps effort is that, unless the trajectory changes, "Through 2023, 90 [percent] of DevOps initiatives will fail to ...

As a DevOps and Agile consultant, I work with many technology leaders who see DevOps as this big tangled mess of which they are trying to make sense. When I talk to ...

As enterprises move to adopt DevOps practices, there is a desire to measure where teams are on their journey. This sometimes leads to the development of maturity models used to assess teams’ ...

In most human endeavors that take a stretch of time to complete, the idea is latched onto and people become excited about being involved. It doesn’t matter if it is building a ...

I’ve been a member of the DevOps community a long time (literally since before it was ever even called “DevOps”). I was a pre-publication reviewer for both "The Phoenix Project" and the ...

The latest and greatest advances in technology often draw the spotlight, but the truly great changes in business aren’t driven by technology alone. They’re enabled by a change in culture that’s supported ...