I was working through this week’s blog this morning, and it was laser-focused on a narrow topic. I had examples of why too much of a good thing is bad, how absolutism about methodology is hurting the majority of organizations out there, and how to get past this issue to keep improving what IT does […]
Transforming the Security Team Into a DevOps Partner
Securing DevOps environments is an increasingly important concern for chief information security officers (CISOs) and security teams. While developers often recognize security is important, it is not their top priority. More typically, the DevOps team prioritizes delivering new capabilities and features to the business and customers, often as part of a larger digital transformation initiative. […]
4 Traits of High-Performance Digital Leaders
Businesses that have retooled their culture, their hierarchy and their business mindset toward the use of technology are consistently outperforming their more traditional peers. According to the newly released Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey 2019, digital leaders are the top 30% of businesses that are extremely effective at leveraging digital capabilities to advance their business strategy. […]
Agile and DevOps: Where the Rubber (Literally) Meets the Road
Do Agile and DevOps methodologies apply outside of technology? More specifically, can we apply them to sport? I decided to answer these questions by analyzing the application of Agile and DevOps principles within my road-cycling team. For those of you who don’t know, cycling is a very data-driven sport. While we are training and racing, […]
Sneckdowns In IT Operations
What IT operations professionals can learn from the actual paths people take through tools and processes, and the differences from the expected usage model. It has been a snowy winter across much of Europe, and although the snow is now beginning to melt in most places, there are still substantial sneckdowns to be seen across […]
Operations Management Puts the ‘Ops’ in DevOps
Awareness and anticipation of operational management, best practices can improve your app at every stage of its life cycle How important or interesting you find the “operations management” aspects of DevOps methodologies likely depends on your background, experience and how many operational horror stories you have lived through. If you have been on the hot […]
Why DevOps is like fitness or religion
What is DevOps? I noted in a blog post last summer that limiting DevOps to a single definition is challenging. The Wikipedia entry for DevOps contains a variety of possible explanations that seem to disagree in some ways: It’s a “software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology […]