Tag: Culture Change

The State of DevOps Is Just Fine
There is a growing amount of hand-wringing about the state of DevOps; that adoption is not progressing apace, or that the full benefits of the methodology are not being realized by the ...

Enterprise Infrastructure: Adapt or Face Extinction
In my previous blog, I explored how new ways of working—DevOps, Agile, cloud and startup thinking—have brought in a tectonic shift in the ways of working of enterprises. For infrastructure leadership and ...

Culture Change: Where It Matters in DevOps
Lori and I were in Russia in the late '90s. It was an interesting dichotomy of life in a changing country. While we were there, the government devalued the ruble—just cut three ...

It’s About Communication, not Silos
Too often, when enterprise folks talk with DevOps aficionados, we get a loud chorus of “Culture Change” and “Take down the silos,” and frankly that scares any sane enterprise IT person. Not ...

DevOps: The Innovation Power Couple
If “Dev” and “Ops” are the power couple of tech, “DevOps” is the holy matrimony that takes innovation from trainwreck to fast and repeatable. At most businesses, however, Dev and Ops still ...

Baselining Metrics to Measure DevOps ROI
Assessing the ROI of DevOps normally is done against a company's baseline cost. The problem is, most organizations do not collect or evaluate the cost of “automating and delivering” innovation; they usually ...