In our ongoing work to advance the interests of customers around adoption of Agile, DevOps and continuous delivery, the theme of evolving workflows to better suit human-scale work cycles often comes to the fore. While it’s easy to say that build, test, release and monitoring capacities should feed into each other to promote continuous collaboration, […]
Delivering DevOps’ Business Value
DevOps is an interesting space to be operating in right now. More than just culture or a set of tools and processes, DevOps delivers speed and agility that can be truly meaningful for the business. Unfortunately, for most large enterprises, the path to the benefits isn’t always well-known and isn’t assured. Over the last five […]
Mobility and Quantum Adaptation
As you look at the preponderance of DevOps tooling solutions available today, you notice similarities in deployment automation and how they work. DevOps is purported to be the most significant catalyst for change in how we innovate in the last two decades. Yet, as you examine the tooling and the strengths and weaknesses of each, […]
Preserving Bottom-Up Innovation in DevOps
Balancing top-down control and oversight with bottom-up innovation and autonomy The driving force behind DevOps adoption in the enterprise is the idea that it will enable faster and more frequent delivery of better quality software. If all goes well, DevOps should result in higher customer satisfaction and lower costs, but the journey to get there […]
How to Kick-Start Your DevOps Adoption
A recent survey by CA Technologies found Australian organizations are below par in terms of implementing measures to adopt and achieve successful DevOps strategies. According to Ashok Vasan, vice president of DevOps Solutions Strategy at CA Technologies Asia Pacific and Japan, organizations are generally aware of the DevOps methodology and its value, but they either […]
Managing Your DevOps Tool Chest: The Complexity of Herding Kittens
We are running another survey here at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, this one co-sponsored by Automic. The survey seeks to understand how tools are selected and used within organizations. Do developers pick their own tools or are tools mandated by the company? Maybe a little of both? For many organizations trying to keep track of all the tools […]
DevOps Debates: The Benefits of Tool Standardization
As my role demands, I work with various large enterprises looking at implementing DevOps to improve their software delivery cycle times. I have seen many strategies being adopted by them—some working, and some not working yet. I have pulled together some of the more common ones so we could debate them to see if these indeed […]
The Myth of “Do It Yourself” DevOps Tools
DevOps is an approach and methodology (even a philosophy) for developing and testing new applications and deploying them into a production environment. Because DevOps is first and foremost a methodology, tools to implement DevOps should be used as a way to implement the desired methodology, rather than being an end in and of themselves. Of […]
SAFe and DevOps – a recipe for a delivery smoothie!
DevOps brings you the deep pink color of fresh strawberries and SAFe the rich, creamy texture of blueberry yoghurt! ‘Agile’ delivery is not always smooth. If not managed well, it can be a nightmare, as those of us who have seen rogue agile processes run amok know. That’s where the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) comes […]
Continuous test monitoring DevOps ”health-beat”
In my prior blog Test Results Analysis at the Speed of DevOps I discussed ways that test analysis features and practices can be optimized to ensure that test results for each CI/CT cycle keep pace with accelerated continuous testing. Beyond optimizing continuous test analysis for each cycle, longer term continuous test monitoring is necessary to […]