Tag: waterfall
WTH? WFH is 6× Pre-Covid ¦ Plus: Agile Sucks (Redux)
In this week’s #TheLongView: Working from home is here to stay, and Agile is still a failure ...
Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why
In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture ...
Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours ...
All Day DevOps, Viewed from the Outside
This year was my first All Day DevOps event. I loved it, as much as I was able to attend. I was especially interested in how DevOps worked with government, as I ...
The 7C Holistic Approach to DevOps
The DevOps methodology was first adopted in 2007 with a bigger purpose of improving organizational efficiency by bridging the gap between software release and IT operations teams. This started as the core ...
Break the Rules and Win at Digital Transformation
The rules of the game have changed. In today’s digital world, it’s not about the big eating the small. It’s the fast that beat the slow and the nimble that outmaneuver companies ...
Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment
I am often asked, “if we are using a continuous integration (CI) server and adopting a continuous delivery pipeline, where does continuous deployment fit in?” Good question. In a nutshell, continuous delivery ...
DevOps Chat: Waterfall Will Not Disappear, with Flint Brenton, CEO Collabnet
One of the perks of being editor in chief of DevOps.com is I get a chance to meet with so many leaders of the DevOps and IT industry. You can really learn ...
Mainframes and the Myth of Bimodal in DevOps
Rewind 20 years ago when we lived in a business world where big companies with unlimited resources beat out smaller, more strapped companies. The digital era—also known as the "age of the ...
Test-First Development: Processes and Tools for Success
A lot of software development teams are talking about "test-first" methodologies. The practice involves moving testing up into the very earliest stages of development so automated tests can be written before code ...
Faster, Smarter DevOps
Whether you call it DevOps or not, if you are concerned about releasing more code faster and at a higher quality, the resulting software delivery chain and process will look and smell ...
IT Organization: Blend, Don’t Divide
Bi-modal is the new normal, but the best way to approach this is to blend operations, not create separate groups. There’s been much ado lately about the transition of enterprise IT from ...