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Pay Down the Skills Debt Before the Technical Debt

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When we talk about DevOps, we talk about addressing technical debt. We talk about how modern delivery processes and solutions might help you cure that technical debt of monolithic systems that are built on obsolete technologies, using antiquated development methodologies. But that jumps past the first critical step toward transformation, as technical debt is not […]

Only DevOps and Taxes

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As software eats the world, it’s hard to have a conversation about anything that isn’t directly related to or driven by modern mobile, web and IoT applications. DevOps describes the modern approach to building these applications. But like all new movements, there is a cost. And while some of the costs associated with modern development […]

DevOps Leadership Series: Boston Common

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DevOps is coming, DevOps is coming!  You could hear the rallying cry around the city of Boston on September 15th and 16th.  This is when the DevOps Leadership Series crew headed up north to attend DevOps Days Boston.   We first caught up with Beno Chapman (@BenoChapman), release engineering leader at Constant Contact.  Beno shared, […]

The Cost to DevOps: 27 Mufflers

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Imagine Imagine that you are designing the 2016 Range Rover line of sport utility vehicles.  Like all gas powered vehicles, each one needs an exhaust muffler.  Range Rover likely has narrowed in on a preferred provider of mufflers. But imagine what would happen if the designers and factory line workers could pick from any one […]

DevOps and Bi-Modal IT

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Can a business have two competing approaches to delivery and operations of their information infrastructure and be successful? If you follow Gartner recommendations, it would seem that bi-modal IT is the way to go. Bi-modal IT has been explained many different ways, but, ultimately, comes down a failure in leadership; allowing a subset of IT […]

DevOps and Organizational Debt

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I recently published a blog on the Perficient Digital Transformation blog entitled “Is Cloud & DevOps Factored Into Your Digital Transformation?” In that blog I discuss the concept of organizational debt and its impact on your DevOps adoption. Here’s what I had to say in that blog: If technical debt addresses too little investment in […]

Q&A: Gene Kim on the pain of accruing technical debt

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Last week, we ran the story Paying Down Technical Debt. This week, we’re discussing that very topic with Gene Kim (@realgenekim). As a follower of DevOps trends, you probably are already aware of his most recent book project, The DevOps Cookbook, and most certainly his previous works, The Visible Ops Handbook and The Phoenix Project: […]

Paying Down Technical Debt

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When watching IT shops over the years it seems some, despite trying to cram two weeks worth of work into six days a week, never seem to move very far forward. And yet other teams seem to make tremendous strides in productivity and outcomes despite not working as many hours as the poorer performing organizations. […]