Tag: Cultural Change
DevOps Matchmaking: APM + CI = A Perfect Marriage
As anyone who has ever been set up on blind dates by friends can attest, finding the right match in today’s world is a tricky feat. There’s a lot of evidence suggesting ...
Tales of DevOps Discovery Part 2: Definitions Matter
Definitions Matter: Step Two in a DevOps Transformation The first post in this series on DevOps Discovery discussed the importance of asking fundamental questions of stakeholders to facilitate alignment on priorities and ...
State of DevOps Survey – The Ultimate Feedback Loop
If there’s any consistent criticism of the larger DevOps movement, it’s that the talking heads and industry gadflies are driving the conversation, not the people in the trenches. All the thought leadership ...
Flash Mob Inflection: Rugged DevOps Revolution
Truthfully, I was never a huge fan of the HBO series “The Sopranos.” It’s not that it wasn’t entertaining; I just didn’t agree with the “best ever” label that so many espoused ...
Four Metrics for Driving Cultural Change in DevOps Teams
Everyone wants to optimize a team’s performance, but it’s not enough to just talk about it. To truly impact your team’s performance, you need to take a page from operationally mature DevOps ...
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 ...
Impacts of DevOps on Testing
I always come across a standard question from testers in any DevOps related presentation. "Will DevOps remove the need for Testers?” A simple answer is "No". DevOps is not going to replace Testing as ...
Librato Seeks to Unlock DevOps Application Monitoring
As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring ...
Lean Value Stream Mapping for DevOps
Value Stream Mapping is a crucial step in assessing an organization's DevOps capability. We create a value stream map of the software development lifecycle early in any DevOps engagement, because it helps ...
ChatOps: Communicating at the speed of DevOps
DevOps is about knocking down barriers between developers and operations teams, and in doing so reducing organizational frictions wherever possible. And that’s certainly the spirit behind ChatOps – the term for the ...
Let DevOps be a business process
I just returned from an amazing time at the first Camp DevOps in Boulder, CO. It was held at University of Colorado, Boulder and in conjunction with Gluecon 2014. This is the ...
Enterprise DevOps is Real and Here to Stay
A recent column in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal argued that while DevOps is gaining inroads in small and mid-sized businesses, it’s facing a much less rosy future in large enterprises ...