Tag: culture

Making DevOps Smoother
Being a DevOps developer isn’t just about technical expertise necessary to build a product. It is also about learning the operations that facilitate the entire process. That means working with a fast-paced, ...

CircleCI Survey Shows the Need to Prioritize DevOps
A CircleCI survey of 2,013 business leaders in the U.S. and UK published today finds nearly all respondents (97%) recognize that the success of their business within the next year depends on ...

Then and Now: The Evolution of DevOps Culture
There are many available resources dedicated to delivering better business value faster. Based on this advice, many organizations and teams are adopting common software delivery practices — even outside the usual use ...

ADOC: Assessing DevOps Culture
The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) is crowdsourced, vendor-neutral and designed for individuals, teams and organizations who want to baseline their current DevOps state, identify the next target state, gain insights into ...

5 Steps to Successful DevOps Culture
The late business management guru Peter Drucker coined the phrase, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” and the phrase has endured through the years. Your people must be passionate and enthusiastic about executing ...

Building (and Nurturing) a Product Team During a Pandemic
Building a successful product team is difficult under the best of circumstances. Building one during a pandemic raises the level of difficulty by an order of magnitude. But it’s not impossible. In ...

Debunking Misconceptions About Engineering Management in 2020
2020 will be a year we all remember for so many reasons. It has been a year full of uncertainty and confusion, and also one in which misconceptions abound. In the world ...

Smashing the (DevOps) Stack for Fun and Profit
Most organizations that I deal with have a similar story for the promulgation of DevOps in their data center. The story is similar for bringing in most new technology and techniques: A ...

Want a Successful Software Build? Just Say No
It is a truth which should be universally acknowledged that the most important skill for a customer-facing job in what we laughingly call "information technology" is a cast-iron ability to say no—and ...

7 DevOps Lessons in 2018: The Path to DevOps Success in 2019
We all learn from mistakes, right? But it would be better if we learned faster and didn’t repeat them in our future exercises. And this is exactly what we will discuss here ...

Culture, Not Changing Much in DevOps
One of the things that has bemused me from day one of the DevOps movement is how culture is viewed with an odd dichotomy. It is simultaneously DevOps' greatest strength and its ...