Tag: process

Automation Relation
One thing that is absolutely true: This latest iteration of IT improvement is about automation. Whether making DevOps more automated, working on any of the various “X-as-code” movements or implementing AI, the ...

How to Solve 3 Significant Development Challenges
As products, systems, and software grow in complexity, so does the development process. This can lead to an increased risk of flaws and can result in expensive and potentially reputation-harming mistakes or ...

Why the DevOps Trinity is Key for Digital Transformation
As digital technology continues to disrupt and transform businesses across industries and around the world, the ability to deliver high-quality software rapidly will make the difference between survival and extinction for many ...

Creating a Continuous Integration Delivery Pipeline
This article will provide an example delivery pipeline used through continuous integration, as well as the DevOps tools involved in the automation of building, testing and deploying code through your software development ...

Delivering DevOps’ Business Value
DevOps is an interesting space to be operating in right now. More than just culture or a set of tools and processes, DevOps delivers speed and agility that can be truly meaningful ...

DevOps is ITSM Best Practice!
What boggles the mind is that opponents of DevOps use risk as an excuse why DevOps would not work in their environments and why using the “traditional ITSM” approach is better and ...
Six Honest Serving Men of DevOps !
"I Keep Six Honest Serving Men" is a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling. Take help from these honest men in a brave and dangerous new DevOps world: I keep six honest serving-men (They taught ...

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 ...

DevOps – what does “good” look like?
I've blogged a lot about my definition of DevOps and what it means to me. I've always thought it much larger than "Dev" and "Ops" and that there isn't really an end ...

DevOps, Growth Hacking & other ways to rule the world
DevOps will disrupt management styles, speed the end to ancient IT practices, and flatten away processes that don’t focus on doing more with less. But DevOps is not the only dev-led movement ...

DevOps Best Practices: Break Down Silos, Avoid Drift and Optimize for Flow
In organizations trying to achieve agility with stability and quality, silos (of teams, tools, and processes) create major stumbling blocks to managing configuration drift between pre-production and production systems. Breaking down those ...

Why you can’t buy DevOps in a box
Companies will often believe they can buy their way out of technical debt without making any substantial changes. They often think they can buy DevOps in a box. Well, unfortunately, devops isn't ...