Bridging The Gap Between Dev and Ops

April 17, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Getting quality software into production quickly and efficiently is a major priority for organizations of all types. Yet many find that development teams’ focus on “innovation and experimentation” conflicts with Ops’ mandate to mitigate risk and increase predictability. This cultural and organizational mismatch puts transformation success at risk, and generates a constant state of “release […]

The Origins of DevOps: What’s in a Name?

January 25, 2018 by Steve Mezak 7 Comments

Depending on your frame of reference, DevOps will celebrate it’s ninth or 10th anniversary this year. In 2016, RightScale’s “State of the Cloud Report” estimated that 70 percent of SMBs were adopting DevOps methods. Every indication is that percentage has increased since then. As DevOps prepares for its second decade of existence, it might be […]

Gene and Mik Summarize Their Favorite Talks from DOES 2017

December 18, 2017 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Overview Join Gene Kim and Mik Kersten as they discuss their favorite talks from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017 and the ways we’ll see the DevOps movement grow in 2018. Hear how the focus on value stream thinking, the dismantling of the monolith and transformational leadership are shaping the future of DevOps as it permeates throughout […]

Fighting Deployment Anxiety: 5 Tips from the Pros

July 25, 2017 by contributor 2 Comments

You know the feeling: You’ve put in hours of work developing a new feature. It has gone through QA, been tested and passed all stakeholder inspections, and now you’re ready to deploy. Despite your experience and preparation, you have a pit in your stomach. What if something goes wrong and it brings your app to […]

DevOps Chat: State of DevOps Report 2017, Nigel Kersten, Puppet

April 26, 2017 by Alan Shimel 1 Comments

The results and analysis of the State of DevOps Report 2017 report are due out in early June. just in time for the DevOps Enterprise Summit London June 5-6. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Puppet exec and one of our favorite interviews, Nigel Kersten. Of course, Nigel and the folks over at Puppet […]

DevOps Chat: Hiscox CTO Jonathan Fletcher

April 24, 2017 by Alan Shimel 0 Comments

Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Jonathan Fletcher, CTO of Hiscox. Jonathan will be quick to tell you that he is actually “interm” CTO. But as I told him in our Chat, if Hiscox is as sharp a company as I think it is, it will make that title permanent soon. I have known […]

ITV, Allianz, UK DWP and 2 Authors Take a ‘Deep Dive into DevOps’

April 19, 2017 by Gene Kim 1 Comments

On the heels of our latest DevOps Enterprise Summit London speaker and programming announcement, I had the pleasure of being joined by Tom Clark, head of Common Platform at ITV; Andrea Hirzle-Yager, head of Department, IT at Allianz Deutschland AG; Mark Schwartz, CIO and author of “The Art of Business Value” and “A Seat at […]

DevOps Chat: DOES London 2017 Speaker Jose Quaresma, Accenture

April 17, 2017 by Alan Shimel 0 Comments

In anticipation of the DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) London 2017, we are interviewing a series of the announced speakers who will be appearing there. The first in our DOES London 2017 speaker interviews is with Jose Quaresma of Accenture. Jose is a leader at Accenture and has a lot of knowledge on real DevOps transformations. […]