Tag: leadership
With DevOps Culture, It’s Mind Over Matter
There is quite a bit of conversation about tools versus culture, and sometimes, those constantly involved in the back-and-forth forget that not everyone is so steeped in the finer points of the ...
Simulating DevOps to Discover the ‘Culture Thingy’
DevOps ... is a term used to refer to a set of practices that emphasize the collaboration and communication of both software developers and information technology (IT) professionals while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes. It ...
5 Leadership Keys to Enterprise Agility
Much like living creatures, organizations that can best adapt to their surroundings are the organizations that are most likely to thrive. For enterprises, that means being able to adapt swiftly to business ...
Training & Certification Implications
Changing culture does not happen by osmosis, it happens through incessant education. The DevOps continuum of services your organization originally intends to create and implement is a journey more than a concrete ...
Digital Transformation Strains Traditional IT
It’s hard to believe, but it’s almost been 13 years since Nicholas G. Carr wrote his famous essay, "IT Doesn’t Matter." In that column Carr argued that IT had become so pervasive ...
Developers Cite Startling Lack of Digital Leadership
Despite app backlogs, developers say their efforts are underfunded and undertrained, and lack a priority for security We’ve long written about the challenges enterprises face when developing the apps they need, digging ...
Changing the Culture of Metrics Analysis
You could say the development and operations teams gave birth to the idea of DevOps, as it is believed the chief benefits are garnered in those two functional disciplines. Because of this, ...
CIOs Must Fight for Relevance in Face of Tech Storms
The past two decades have seen their share of technological disruption – retail, books, music, newspapers, and traditional data centers by – virtualization and cloud computing. With the impact of cloud computing ...
DevOps Chat: Sunil Rajasekar, CTO of Lithium
Continuing our DevOps Chats, Leadership Series I recently sat down with Sunil Rajasekar, CTO of Lithium. As Chief Technology Officer, Sunil oversees core product, development and delivery of Lithium's enterprise platform. Sunil is ...
Avoiding Common Executive DevOps Mistakes
A seasoned DevOps practitioner with experience leading both HP and Macy's on continuous delivery transformations, Gary Gruver has learned the ins and outs of implementing Agile and DevOps at enterprise scale through ...
Is Ops the quarterback of the DevOps team?
Without stepping too deeply into the charged debate on whether or not developers are at the pinnacle of the IT food chain, I’ve recently observed that many of the DevOps leaders I’ve ...
DevOps adoption can succeed where ITIL failed, if we let it
When I look at the future of DevOps adoption and acceleration I contrast it with what I feel was the failure of ITIL to really move beyond large enterprise IT shops. I ...