Tag: Cultural Change
DevOps Didn’t Fail — We Just Finally Gave it the Tools it Deserved
Charity Majors delivers a wake-up jab to DevOps, sparking debate on its evolution and success. Is it a failure or just getting interesting? Alan dives into the discussion ...
Why Up to 70% of SRE Initiatives Stall Before They Scale — and How to Break the Plateau
Many SRE initiatives stall because organizations adopt the title without the principles. True SRE success requires leadership vision, cultural change, shared KPIs and continuous maturity measurement—not tools alone ...
Five Don’ts When Scaling DevOps
The DevOps market is expected to reach $50 billion by 2022. However, despite the growing market, many organizations are struggling to make the transition from the successful implementation of a DevOps project ...
ShiftLeft & DevOps: A Narrative Within a Narrative?
I procrastinated watching the season finale of "Westworld" just because I ended up reading a day later how Dolores ended the episode! I don't know who to blame: my inquisitiveness or that ...
CD 101 Podcast: The What, How and Future of Continuous Delivery
Now that we’ve arrived at Episode 4 of our CD 101 Podcast, let’s address some basic concepts—like the what and how of it all and the future. Wait … perhaps we could—or ...
Why Financial Companies Love Continuous Delivery
The other day I was on the American Express website paying bills and browsing around the benefits and services afforded me when I ran across a "who we are" section. It read: ...
Be Here Now – Agile and DevOps in the Current State of Synergy
If there’s one thing that our culture does not lack, it’s a litany of pithy catch-quotes meant to remind us to focus on the task at hand; yet, this often runs counter ...
CD 101 Podcast Episode 2: The Agile Enterprise
And we're back with another episode of the "Continuous Delivery 101 Podcast." In Episode 1, we covered the three waves of IT disruption—and how these disruptions, combined with the move toward digital ...
Culture Comes First in Bringing DevOps to the Mainframe
One of the most difficult challenges in engineering, oddly enough, isn’t technical: the challenge is culture transition management. In my 20-plus years of managing engineering teams worldwide, I’ve led teams through countless ...
Welcome to the Continuous Delivery 101 Podcast
No matter what industry you’re in or how old your business is, your software often determines your success in today’s application economy. Applications are the face of your business—both the way it ...
A Holiday Tradition: 2017 Continuous Delivery Predictions
It’s that time of year. As the calendar year comes to a close, many of us are following time-honored traditions: making preparations for the holidays, planning some much-deserved time off and enjoying ...
Assembling the Key Components of Continuous Delivery
As agile methodology was popularized at the start of last decade, engineering teams gained the opportunity to begin producing software in shorter cycles, while releasing it reliably at more frequent intervals. This concept ...

