The baseball season is in full swing. There are 30 major league teams competing for a playoff spot, but, as I write this, only five of them—or 16.67 percent—qualify as elite performers with a winning percentage over .600. The number is strikingly similar in DevOps, where, according to one survey, just 17 percent of organizations […]
TechRepublic’s Bombshell Survey: A DevOps Fiasco?
This month, I chose to share the findings of a TechRepublic’s recent survey on DevOps not only because it’s a bombshell within the IT community, but because it brings out two eye-opening facts: Seventy-eight percent of organizations haven’t fully implemented DevOps because “they don’t get it” Only 22 percent of organizations have merged their teams for […]
Top 5 Considerations for DevOps Success in 2018
Top tips for maximizing DevOps effectiveness Whether you are well into your DevOps journey or still thinking about getting started, there’s always room for improvement and an opportunity to learn from each other. Perhaps at the top of your to-do list this year is to implement DevOps as part of your product strategy. You can […]
DevOps Chat: Measuring DevOps Success with Steve Boone, UrbanCode
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Steve Boone, product owner and development manager for Urban Code Deploy. Now that DevOps is in practice at more organizations, measuring DevOps success is a question many are asking. Steve has helped hundreds of companies adopt, implement and scale their agile and DevOps practices as part of their digital […]
Our Sprint to Agile Success
Adoption of the agile methodology is essential to the success of a DevOps culture. This is not revolutionary, but is an important foundation. We view agile as the tool for developers to achieve DevOps. Our team, which is developer-centric, is focusing on the agile piece of the equation moving forward. But what happens when you […]
Funding Failure by Intent
Why is it that when we purchase a lotto ticket, every part of our brain tells us we won’t win, yet some portion of it is able to inspire hope where there shouldn’t be any? Could it be the same part of our brain that inspires hope in the face of nearly certain failure has […]
7 Sets Of DevOps Success Metrics From DOES ‘15
Beyond the moral support, the executive management coaching and the tips on how to build DevOps momentum in the enterprise environment, last week’s DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 offered a boatload of excellent fodder for those seeking to prove the value of DevOps patterns once they got back home. DOES wasn’t just about cheerleading—alongside lessons on […]
Budgeting for DevOps Success
One concept that seems to be universal across all IT departments is the admins lament of “how do I convince my boss that we should spend the money.” Whether it is security, QA or development tools, technical professionals have a difficult time talking the language of the business to justify the expenditure of always scarce […]