Tag: agile culture

The Need for Agile, Adaptable IT Infrastructure
Through the adoption of Agile concepts and new best practices such as automated testing, organizations can move beyond the innovation curve and bolster their IT infrastructure. In fact, the need to build ...

3 Building Blocks for Enterprise Digital Transformation
DevOps has gone from a new idea to a buzzword in every boardroom over the last decade. With society increasing its reliance on digitization and pushing their preferences for speed and convenience, ...

DevOps Agility Shines in the Midst of a Pandemic
As a career developer and now a chief technology officer, I am experiencing firsthand how COVID-19 has forced us all into new ways of working. I’m also aware that these new ways ...

From Automated Cloud Deployment to Progressive Delivery
Your team is on its agile journey and you can more or less track a deployment from a story, through git commits, to an automated builder, to an artifact repository, into a ...

Radical Transparency in DevOps and ITSM Helps Achieve Excellent Customer Experience
Here’s what I’ve noticed after spending several years in service management: DevOps is coming up more in the conversations I’m having with service desk leaders. Usually, these conversations start with one of ...

Is DevOps in the Enterprise Real?
Is DevOps in the enterprise real? The short answer is yes, but you may assume it’s only relevant to the world’s leading cloud companies because they’re the ones that make the headlines ...

Consider the Role of Programmers as Storytellers
Every time I speak with the programmers of our team in casual conversation, I ask what they're working on. Every time, I get the same kind of answer, "I'm building a dashboard," ...

Successful Digital Transformation Starts With Developers
Digital transformation (DX) continues to be a primary focus as companies both large and small look to become more agile, improve and accelerate the delivery of product and service offerings and enhance ...

Successful DevOps Initiatives Start With Company Culture
What initially drove the need for embarking on the DevOps journey in your team or at your company in the first place? Was it: Market shift? New leadership or an acquisition? New ...

Promoting Purpose in Agile Environments
Agile environments increasingly are becoming a popular option for organizations large and small. Although initially created as a solution for small software development teams with short budgets and complex scopes, it’s been ...

Lessons from a Successful Large-Scale Agile Transition
Completing a large-scale agile transition can seem intimidating for any business. Agile pushes teams to change their cultural expectations and work processes—a combination that is tough on any work environment. Larger organizations, ...

DevOps: Assessing Behavior Flows Through an Organization
I’ll admit it, this article is a little strange. It is an experiment. But DevOps is all about experimentation, right? This article explores how information and behaviors in fact “flow” through an ...