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Librato Seeks to Unlock DevOps Application Monitoring

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As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring capabilities. Librato, a San Francisco-based provider of Amazon AWS applications performance monitoring (APM) services, claims that it is finding favor among the rapidly […]

Scaling Lean and Agile for the enterprise: All hands on keyboard!!!

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Lean and Agile methodologies are nothing new, but in the last few years we have seen the emergence of several frameworks combining elements of both. The IBM DevOps framework is one clear example. Combining principles of Lean and Agile into a single framework enables scaling of the core benefits to the entire organization, not just […]

Tailoring DevOps to your IT: A case study for SAP

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I am frequently asked if DevOps principles can be applied to legacy environments such as SAP. They clearly can, with some tailoring. But you should be aware of certain constraints. An agile transformation from conventional IT (where the SAP software delivery process is split between business analysts, development, the QA department and IT operations) towards […]

How ADLM Gobbles Up DevOps

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The Next Evolution of Software Delivery Automation In the 1980’s and 90’s, the business software landscape was dominated by a diverse list of cutting-edge companies such as Best Software, i2, Brock Control Systems, Mapics, Ross Systems, Infinium, FBO Systems, Manugistics and MSA (of course I could go on and on). Now long gone, these and […]

Will DevOps Kill IT Outsourcing?: Part 1

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Part 1: DevOps and outsourcing like oil and water After nearly two decades of steady IT outsourcing for the sake of savings and efficiency gains, the shine seems to have worn off from this once glittering phenomenon. And according to many experts, DevOps and continuous delivery practices are playing a big part in many enterprises’ […]

The Next Wave of Software Delivery – Integrating Agile and DevOps for the Digital Enterprise

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In the past five years business cycles have greatly accelerated, forcing companies to respond faster to customer needs and competitive demands. This trend has been driven by business adoption of consumer-oriented technologies like social media, smart phones, b2c internet services. We all expect to have a constant stream of new services and capabilities delivered to us […]

Appster Must Produce Mobile Apps Using Nimble DevOps Practices (It Has No Choice)!

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In order to meet the many challenges of producing loads of different app/server projects large and small in extremely rapid succession, Appster collaborates on, automates, and dashboards everything it can. “Unlike traditional product companies (i.e. one product with lots of developers) or corporate IT shops (i.e. silos of products and services that rarely change), Appster […]

Best Practices to Prevent Scrum Failure

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In my years of experience as a scrum master, I’ve encountered numerous situations where scrum has resulted in less-than-ideal outcomes, a Scrum failure if you will—not because the agile framework is flawed, but because the company didn’t understand, or disregarded, how scrum is supposed to work. For example, I was once a scrum master for […]

SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded

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DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]