Tag: devops culture
IBM: DevOps Begins and Ends with Culture
Making the transition to DevOps requires as much a shift in cultural mindset as it does new platforms for building, deploying and managing applications. Between the two, however, it’s often the extent ...
Is DevOps Really Necessary?
I spend my days discussing DevOps and digital transformations with companies of all sizes, from startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. I've found that many teams are still at a ...
DevOps: Bringing People, Process and Technology Together for Digital Transformation
DevOps principles are built on an effective, continuous cycle of improvements—key factors that help drive digital transformation for companies large and small. Inserting this agile mindset into culture and operations, however, can ...
Inclusion, Collaboration and DevOps: Seeing the Bigger Picture
The last half of 2017 was pretty amazing. I wrote a brief post about the Inclusive Collaboration Summit I attended in London last July. Sallyann Freudenberg and Katherine Kirk started this campaign ...
Can Agile and DevOps Get Along?
There is a common misconception that Agile and DevOps cannot work together, which does a disservice to everyone in the software development and delivery field. In fact, both approaches can significantly add ...
5 Principles for Building Teams to Evolve Your Entire Organization
A transformation can’t come from simply changing some tools or tweaking some antiquated processes to create improved collaboration. This is ultimately setting yourself up to fail. The magic comes from creating a ...
Digital Business Revolution: Why DevOps is the New Enterprise Value Chain
Ongoing industry disruptions are forcing businesses to change their operational model; that's the only way to avoid and survive digital bankruptcies. In North America, Sears Canada filed for bankruptcy, while Toys R ...
What Can Conway’s Law Teach Us About DevOps?
I first heard about Conway's Law from reading the "DevOps Handbook" (an excellent read, by the way, if you want to dive head-first into DevOps). I was intrigued by how this idea ...
DevOps Gets More Exciting in 2018
As 2017 winds down and the IT industry prepares for 2018, there are a number of DevOps trends that everyone should be keeping their eyes on. It’s not so much that something ...
Cuba Embraces DevOps, Despite Infrastructure Challenges
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking at the second DevOpsDays event in Cuba alongside some great technologists from across the United States, Europe and Latin America. The conference ...
Barriers to DevOps Culture Change
In the quest for DevOps, there are two paths organizations can take. One is to start with automation and attempt to get as much as possible out of automation tools. The other ...
Understanding is Key to Achieving DevOps Culture
Historically speaking, IT has been composed of silos. This has worked out rather well over the last half century or so, as one team developed systems, another kept them running, another handled ...