The BizOps Coalition, which advocates for fundamental change in the way IT teams and business users collaborate during software development, today published a BizOps Manifesto framework that identifies 12 principles that focus organizations on business outcomes versus merely attaining and maintaining service levels. The goal is to close the historic divide between IT and the […]
A Prescription to End the Myopia of Software Metrics
“People don’t want a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!,” Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review. As someone who has purchased many drills in my life—and drilled my share of holes—this quote has always struck me as a bit, well, myopic. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not arguing with the sentiment behind the quote—that organizations […]
Is It Time to End the Software Metric Madness?
We have all heard the phrase “What gets measured, gets managed,” often attributed to Peter Drucker—interesting note about this quote, Drucker didn’t say it. In the DevOps space, or application development and delivery generally, this quote is often used as a justification to measure things like deployment velocity, bug fixes, lead time and so on, […]
Why BizOps Is Becoming Important and How It Can Help Your Teams
Every 20 seconds, $1 million is wasted on IT investments that don’t align with business strategy. How much is your business wasting? To align business, development and IT operations, your teams need to adopt a new BizOps approach. In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at BizOps and why it’s becoming so important. Why […]