A Q & A with Gene Kim: DevOps and What Separates High Performing Enterprises
We recently caught up with Gene Kim (@realgenekim) as he was wrapping up the final touches of a draft of the upcoming DevOps Cookbook. We wanted to get his thoughts on what causes IT deployment failure, the DevOp movement, and finally what separates high performing IT organizations from low performing ones. If you’re following DevOps, […]
Is DevOps Ready to Cross the Chasm to Mainstream?
There are just a handful of business books that I have read that have had a profound influence on me. One was Gene Kim’s “The Phoenix Project”, another was Eliyahu Goldratt’s “The Goal”. A third one was Geoffrey Moore’s, “Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers”. Even though written in the […]
The Unexpected Benefits of DevOps
There are many well and widely known benefits of DevOps, including rapid software delivery, a higher degree of enterprise agility, increased system resilience, and being able to swiftly identify and resolve problems. But what unexpected benefits have been experienced by organizations that are already down the DevOps path? Kevin Behr, chief science officer at Assemblage […]
How We Can Help DevOps Cross The Chasm
The problem that DevOps solves is universal, urgent and important. Every IT organization is responsible for two things: deliver fast flow of projects and features, while preserving reliable, stable and secure services. Until very recently these were thought to be mutually exclusive, we thought it was only possible to achieve one of those objectives, at […]
DevOps.com Pitches a Big Tent
If you are reading this you have already discovered one way or another, that the new DevOps.com website has launched. I am proud to say that I have been one of a team of folks who have been working hard on DevOps.com for many months and weeks now. I will serve as editor-in-chief and as […]