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Lean Value Stream Mapping for DevOps
Value Stream Mapping is a crucial step in assessing an organization's DevOps capability. We create a value stream map of the software development lifecycle early in any DevOps engagement, because it helps ...
Surprise! Broad Agreement on the Definition of DevOps
For the past few years, the conventional wisdom has been that DevOps has no agreed upon definition. Instead, everyone has their own interpretation. However, the conventional wisdom is wrong. While everyone supplies slightly ...
Webinar: Show Me Success Before I’ll Invest in DevOps – A HM Health Solutions Case Study
Whatever your conviction, the reluctance by senior management to justify new investments and sponsor major change in existing software delivery practices and technologies, while theoretically understandable, often leaves application development executives and ...
Webinar: Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation breaks down IT silos and speeds up mainframe development
DevOps encourages adoption of lean and agile development practices irrespective of platforms. However in most organizations mainframe and mobile/web development teams are functioning in siloes, resulting in a plethora of technology platforms ...
Is DevOps a Competitive Advantage? A Debate
The idea of DevOps being a competitive advantage is not a new one. Service providers, software sellers, and internal IT frequently use this argument to justify all kinds of investments. But is ...
DevOps and the Case for ROI to Executives
DevOps is hot and likely top of mind for your executives. Every IT analyst firm now has a point of view (POV) on DevOps. International Data Corp. (IDC) for example believes that ...
Why do DevOps? Winning hearts and minds with a Lean boxscore
Change is difficult. It can be painful, disruptive, and costly. Making a case for change requires us to win over hearts and minds. In my experience, we need to win the hearts ...
Think you’ve established Kanban? Why you might only be halfway there
As a Lean Coach working in IT I often hear development teams refer proudly to their scrumboards as an example of Kanban. To which I say, 'that's a great start... but it's ...
Webinar: How Nationwide Insurance is Adopting DevOps for Variable Speed IT Systems
To drive towards faster innovation, and also ensure the stability of the core business, the need arises for what is being termed as “two-speed or variable speed IT.” While innovative Systems of ...
IBM’s Watson sits at the crossroads between DevOps and Big Data
While attending IBM InterConnect in late February I had an opportunity to sit in on a press conference. The focus of the press conference was primarily around IBM’s efforts related to hybrid ...
DevOps Golden Rule: Writing More Code for Test Than For Production
Continuous improvement can help completely turnaround a staid IT organization into an innovation machine. But without effective test automation, that transformation is a non-starter. So says Gary Gruver, who has led DevOps ...
Shift Left: Can you be left out?
One of the most popular terms bandied about in DevOps is “shift left”. I was at a workshop last month at IBM InterConnect conducted by Sanjeev Sharma and Mustafa Kapadia. They put ...