These Three Approaches Will Help Your Enterprise Be More Agile
Nearly every organization that tries to change its culture to be more agile and better adapt to changing environments discovers that it’s harder than it looks. Agile transformation can’t be superficial or only embraced by the IT department–it needs to be completely pervasive throughout the business. There is no one-size-fits-all approach or playbook that can […]
Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 2: Common Mistakes
Many companies are turning to software to differentiate themselves and drive success. But with an increased focus on software comes ever-increasing customer expectations on performance and updates. One of the best structures that IT organizations turn to is DevOps—a strategy that is designed to deliver value quickly and strategically. Being successful in DevOps takes careful […]
The 20 Best DevOps Podcasts
Skip the whole “starting a podcast is easy, all you need is a computer and a mic” pitch. The truth is podcasting is hard and it takes considerable work to create something special. The low barrier of entry intrigue is a double-edged sword, making it harder for good podcasts to get noticed in the incessant […]
Achieving Organizational Change Through Scaled DevOps
The rapid pace of technological change has had a major impact on customer expectation, forcing IT decision-makers to adopt agile processes to ensure the continual delivery of innovation. This has led to the mass adoption of DevOps practices, with 77% of organizations indicating they rely on DevOps to deploy software, or plan to, in the near future. […]
The Secret to Digital Transformation is Human Connection
We know digital transformation is no longer an option for today’s organizations–it’s a requirement. End-users have come to expect an easy, digital-native experience, whether they are ordering a pizza or automating an entire network infrastructure, which is why businesses and governments are throwing trillions of dollars at new technologies and related services. Organizations must build […]
Top 3 Challenges of DevOps Adoption
Customer expectations continue to relentlessly rise as new technological opportunities emerge. Today, organizations demand products and application features are delivered and implemented wherever and whenever needed. Everywhere you look, execution is at risk of falling behind imaginations and business imperatives. That is, of course, unless DevOps is starting to wield a strategic and philosophic influence. […]
DOES19 London: Effective Team Management Foments New Ways of Working
In the IT space it feels like we collectively begin asking and ruminating on the same question all at once, chewing on all the possible answers and outcomes. Recently, one such question has begun popping up with more and more frequency: “How can we help teams, and especially product teams, be more effective?” While more […]
DOES London 2019: Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier (BVSSH)
One of the key themes for this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit in London was BV-S,S,H. It stands for Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier. It gets to the heart of what DevOps is trying to do: Deliver better value, sooner, safer and it results in happier people and organizations. Gene Kim mentioned this several times on […]
Successful Transformation: Challenge the Status Quo
If enterprises are going to succeed in their digital transformations, they need to be able to shake-up and challenge the status quo within their organizations. In fact, not being able to challenge the status quo is one of the biggest barriers to successful digital transformations. Yet, challenging the status quo is always a risky move […]
JFrog swampUP: An Insight into Insight Partners
Another great event we covered on the Digital Anarchist tour this summer was the JFrog swampUp event in San Francisco. Among the many great interviews we did at swampUp, one was with my friend Thomas Krane, vice president at Insight Partners. Insight Partners is one of the leading investors in both DevOps and Cybersecurity growth […]
Why DevOps Implementation is Often Unsuccessful – and How to Fix It
Much like “blockchain” and “big data,” the term “DevOps” is another buzzword currently being thrown around the IT departments of large organizations. Many have identified the need for faster software development life cycles; a more precise process closely aligned with business objectives, allowing for clearer workflow and collaboration between the development and operations teams. DevOps […]
A Culture-Driven Approach to DevOps Transformation
One of the most challenging aspects of a DevOps transformation isn’t automating and overhauling technology. The biggest challenge of DevOps is changing an organization’s culture and purpose. You can’t “buy a DevOps.” DevOps demands the involvement of people, process and tools working together. Unfortunately, I’ve seen too many companies get carried away with the latest […]
Is DevOps in the Enterprise Real?
Is DevOps in the enterprise real? The short answer is yes, but you may assume it’s only relevant to the world’s leading cloud companies because they’re the ones that make the headlines. DevOps offers the promise of agility, quality and ultimately better-performing software. While DevOps processes can increase agility, and agile approaches are a great […]
Why Did DevOps Become So Popular? 3 Theories
DevOps has now been a thing for a solid decade. As we look back at the history of DevOps, it’s worth asking: Where did DevOps come from, and why did it take off when it did? In honor of the 10-year anniversary of DevOps, I’d like to explore these questions. A Brief History of DevOps […]
JFrog swampUP: DevOps Culture Is a Powerful Force
The notion that culture is such an important part of DevOps and high-performing IT teams gets plenty of lip service, but not every organization really buys into it. In my years covering the DevOps space, I can count only a handful of companies that truly represent the epitome of “DevOps culture.” One of these companies […]
DevOps Tools Democratize the View From Both Sides
How modern product decisions platforms marry the key metrics of features changes to organizational KPIs In 1967, Joni Mitchell released one of her most iconic songs, “Both Sides Now.” The song was inspired by the book, “Henderson the Rain King,” in which author Saul Bellow writes about flying to Africa and looking out the plane […]
Successful DevOps Initiatives Start With Company Culture
What initially drove the need for embarking on the DevOps journey in your team or at your company in the first place? Was it: Market shift? New leadership or an acquisition? New product or service idea? Cost savings or consolidation? All of the above? Whatever drove the need, my guess is there were pre-sales demos, […]
7 Ways to Introduce DevOps in Your Work Culture
As many industries are going through a wave of digital transformation, a number of key technologies and principles are being deployed to business advantage. One such principle is DevOps. This collaborative principle is proving to be extremely helpful for businesses in their pursuit of customer satisfaction and beating their competition. The DevOps trend is growing, […]
DevOps: Assessing Behavior Flows Through an Organization
I’ll admit it, this article is a little strange. It is an experiment. But DevOps is all about experimentation, right? This article explores how information and behaviors in fact “flow” through an organization. It is based upon my observations with literally hundreds of DevOps teams. I have used the Three Ways of DevOps to show […]
5 Considerations to Get DevOps Right in Telco IT Systems
Implementing DevOps in telco IT systems, such as business support systems/operations support systems (BSS/OSS), is not easy. This is especially true with telcos that overly rely on third-party commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) vendors or systems integrators (SIs) to implement new capabilities, and to run operations. To effectively control the vendors, telcos extensively use traditional levers found […]
Survey Finds Mixed Progress on DevSecOps
A survey of 5,558 IT professionals published today by Sonatype in collaboration with CloudBees, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, Signal Sciences, 9th Bit and Twistlock finds 27 percent of organizations have mature DevOps practices in place, while another 48 percent are still working on improving them. Despite the DevOps works that remains to be accomplished, […]
DevOps Disillusionment? 4 Behaviors to Get Your Team to the Other Side
For most teams, the adoption of DevOps and an agile mindset involves many twists and turns on the path to maturity. It’s not uncommon for teams to experience a “trough of disillusionment” period as: Initial euphoria and “us-against-the-world” team mentality ushered in by adoption of new work patterns wanes with time. Client demands and pressures […]
DevOoops Moves: Failure to Address Organizational Blockers
DevOps’ aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But, it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we lovingly call a “DevOoops.” CloudBees recently polled some colleagues and came up with five examples of a DevOoops in action. Following is a discussion submitted by consultant Viktor Farcic […]