DevOps Chat: IBM draws on deep DevOps experience to launch Bluemix Garage Method
With the start of the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 this morning IBM has made what they are touting as a major announcement. Drawing on their wide and deep experience in DevOps across multiple segments of the company, they have announced Garage Method. What exactly is Bluemix Garage Method? Great question. I spoke today with […]
DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 kicks off
Are you going to San Francisco? If you are you don’t have to wear a flower in your hair. But if you are into DevOps or want to be and are in San Francisco this week you should be at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 (DOES 2015). The conference produced and hosted by Gene Kim’s IT […]
Coming to DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015? Must attend IBM sessions and Night at the Garage event!
DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 is next week. Though only in it’s second year, it is a conference that any technical professional can get excited about, and is an event that IBM is proud to sponsor. Three days of discussion span topics from product integration, to agile and lean concepts, and how to start implementing DevOps […]
DevOps Connect: cdSummit at Austin Innotech
Last week I was down in Austin, Texas for the DevOps Connect: cdSummit @Innotech show. With almost 1900 people registered for Innotech, we had a solid 150 folks specifically for cdSummit. I think it fair to say that the attendees got their money’s worth! The morning started off with a great presentation by Jez Humble. […]
How Fast Is Fast Enough?
One of the primary goal of DevOps is the ability of an organization to bring an idea to market faster. But how fast is fast enough? Do they need to improve time to market by 10%, 20%, 50%..90%? Do all applications need to ultimately be released within hours? In order to compete do we all […]
Lean for DevOps: Is it OK to move the banana?
There is an urban legend about a Lean deployment which, in the process of applying the 5S to a workshop, drew lines on the desk to indicate where each worker should keep their banana. 5S, for the uninitiated, is a set of principles by which Lean practitioners organize a workspace – which might apply to […]
DevOps Chat: Randy Newell, IBM InterConnect 2016
Last week I had a chance to sit down with Randy Newell, Marketing Director for DevOps at IBM. We talked about the buzz starting to build around InterConnect 2016 this February in Las Vegas. The call for speakers is open until September 25th. Randy and I spoke about last years event and what to expect […]
‘Tis the season to up your speaking game
Well it’s football season in the US, that means Fall is here. It also means that we are coming up to conference season. No matter what segment of the IT market you live in, there are probably a slew of conferences both local and national/international vying for your attention and attendance. For the overwhelming majority […]
Roll-up your sleeves – Launch a SAFe® Agile Release Train
Most organizations often begin their agile transformation with a series of low risk, stand-alone pilots. While these pilots may prove that teams can adopt small team agile practices such as “Scrum” or “XP”, however these pilots often don’t help prove that your organization can adopt agile at the enterprise level. Scaling agile to support larger […]
Come to DevOps Connect: CD Summit in Austin, October 8th with Jez Humble
Here at DevOps.com we are very happy to announce that we are teaming up with Prospera Events (producers of the InnoTech Conferences), CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company and IBM to bring a DevOps Connect: CD Summit to Austin, Texas on October 8, 2015. The event will be held at the Austin Convention Center as part […]
Steer SAFely – So how do you do it?
This is the third blog in the DevOps – Scaled Agile series. In the previous blogs, we discussed the characteristics of a successful enterprise agile transformation and provided specific guidance on applying lean and agile practices at an enterprise level. We covered the “why” and a bit of the “how” at a high level, making […]
Five things to understand about Enterprise DevOps Solutions
There is a lot of buzz in the industry around selling and consuming DevOps. Unfortunately there isn’t the same level of understanding or even a common definition about DevOps between consumers and service providers. In my experience the past couple of years of evangelizing DevOps, the following 5 aspects come to my mind as critical […]
DevOps Chat: Rosalind Radcliffe, Mobile to Mainframe DevOps for Dummies
I recently had a chance to sit down with IBM Distinguished Engineer Rosalind Radcliffe about her new book, Mobile to Mainframe DevOps for Dummies. The book is actually quite a bit deeper than your usual “for Dummies” book and an excellent read. Of course you would expect as much coming from Rosalind who has quite […]
Steer SAFely – Driving collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams
This is the second blog in the DevOps – Scaled Agile series. In the first blog, Scaling Lean and Agile for the enterprise: All hands on keyboard!!!, we discussed the characteristics of a successful enterprise agile transformation and described why engagement and commitment across all disciplines in the organization is not just optional, but required, […]
The Art of DevOps
This is the third in a series of posts on DevOps. The first written by my colleague Lee Reid was titled The Simple Math of DevOps. The second The Calculus of DevOps was written by IBM client, and my friend Carmen DeArdo of Nationwide. Lee introduced mathematically improving delivery throughput by leveraging DevOps to improve […]
Scaling Lean and Agile for the enterprise: All hands on keyboard!!!
Lean and Agile methodologies are nothing new, but in the last few years we have seen the emergence of several frameworks combining elements of both. The IBM DevOps framework is one clear example. Combining principles of Lean and Agile into a single framework enables scaling of the core benefits to the entire organization, not just […]
DevOps in a Hybrid Model
As enterprises have begun to demystify the value proposition around cloud adoption, several best practices, optimization techniques and delivery models have been described in the technical community around cloud enablement and large scale adoption. While the debate between choosing private cloud vs. public cloud model has been longstanding, enterprises have been looking to mitigate the […]
The Calculus of DevOps
This is the second in a series of blogs, partnering with Lee Reid, who wrote the first installment “The Simple Math of DevOps” and Sanjeev Sharma both of who are outstanding DevOps Thought Leaders from IBM. I am picking up on Lee’s mathematical DevOps model to apply a calculus perspective, a “calculus of DevOps” if […]
Lean for DevOps: Mapping the tributaries and deltas of demand
Here at IBM’s Lean practice we use a diagram called ‘Mississippi’ to analyze demand. It is not so-called because it originates in Mississippi – in fact I’ve been given to understand that this tool was developed, and named, in our UK practice*. Instead, it’s called the Mississippi because, like that great river, demand comes from […]
“Show Me The Money!” – Delivering DevOps Value
HM Heath Solutions delivers new business applications in the healthcare industry to 35 million customers. In order to embark on their DevOps journey to improve software delivery, Valerie Scott, their Manager of Shared Services Division, had to show senior management an ROI on a successful project, before they would invest fully. On June 2, Val Scott […]
The Simple Math of DevOps
We are living in an information- infused society, much dependent on various technological innovations taking place all around us. In such conditions, as consumers become more connected, they are empowered with more information and choices. They expect quick and consistent information available at all times. Likewise, our business leaders expect their IT teams to build […]
Follow the Unicorn: Transform your Enterprise Applications
For those of us that work on Enterprise Systems such as the mainframe, the claims that the Unicorns (1) make, can be pretty astounding. Dozens and sometimes hundreds of releases a day from big companies like Netflix (2) and Etsy (3) are hard to comprehend. But look a little closer and you can see that […]
Webinar: Build, test and deploy mobile apps with back-end mainframe services securely in a hybrid cloud
You may already have a good understanding of the hybrid cloud and its benefits. But how do you get the value of the last three decades of investment in your backend infrastructure into the hands of your end users faster? In this webcast we will demonstrate how you can take advantage of the latest IBM […]