Tag: continuous improvement
How to Properly Approach Automation
Imagine if you backed out of your driveway, tapped the gas and BAM! You are at work. Nothing to worry about along the way, no traffic congestion, no other cars to worry ...
Scaling DevOps for the Enterprise
Information technology has been an integral piece of the modern enterprise for multiple decades and that dependency is only growing. With digital transformation, there’s the inevitable increase in demand for new applications ...
Leadership Role in Adding Test Automation to Existing Environments
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 ...
Predictions 2020: The Year of DevOps Empowerment
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 ...
Operational Excellence and the Success of Software Deployments
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 ...
DevOps Chat: Enterprise DevOps Adoption, with Micro Focus’ Mark Levy
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 ...
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Chasing DevOps Transformation
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, ...
Focusing on the True DevOps North Star: Continuous Improvement
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 Top 5 Ways DevOps Fails – and How to Prevent Them
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 ...
DevOps and Systems Thinking: The Farmer, His Tractor and Olive Garden
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 ...
Keys to Improving Enterprise DevOps Practices
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’ ...
Testing What’s Important: Keep Growing Your Test Base
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 ...