IBM held its InterConnect 2015 conference last week in Las Vegas. The event covered on a range of topics including hybrid cloud, mobile apps, and DevOps. One session I attended focused on Agile development and the parallels to DevOps were apparent. The session I attended at the Mandalay Bay Hotel was titled “How a Major […]
Isn’t Continuous Testing a Longevity Test Anti-pattern?
Accordingly to Jim Coplien: “an anti-pattern is something that looks like a good idea, but which backfires badly when applied. “ In DevOps context, continuous testing is an attractive solution for the narrow context of testing specific software components quickly (in cycles measured in minutes or hours) but may be “bad” if the system that […]
Tuning in to the real pain of customers
In my product management and marketing experience, I discovered that I carry a deep bias about our product capabilities and why it’s special — before a launch. On a whiteboard, in a spec, or in a usability lab, our product can and will change the world. Post-launch, when customers get their hands on our product, […]
Digital Transformation with Agile and DevOps – Something “Wicked” This Way Comes
Our world is full of wicked problems, like climate change, urban planning and social injustice. They’re called wicked because they’re hard to recognize, define and solve. Furthermore, complex interdependencies mean solving one aspect will just expose or create other problems. Today’s digital transformation imperatives are creating wicked problems for IT. So wicked in fact, they […]
How Deploy Frequency Impacts Infrastructure Stability
I recently took some time out from reading the Internet to read a very specific piece of research I found on the Internet from IDC – its “DevOps and the Cost of Downtime” to be exact. Sponsored by AppDynamics, this fascinating read included a variety of statistics that are helpful in understanding the impact of […]
DevOps & Continuous Change
A remark by a colleague while waiting for the coffee machine to complete its cycle started my train of thought. “Should we have multiple minor releases or just do a few major ones in a year?” In large organizations, due to many factors, the turnaround time for a single successful release is quite extensive; but […]
The Ultimate Endpoint of Enterprise DevOps
There’s a reason we so often use the word “journey” when we talk about DevOps – it is a critical aspect to a practical approach to DevOps. While we focus a lot on culture in the DevOps community, as I have previously said, culture is an output, not an input; it is the destination, not […]
Inside the mind of a true DevOps evangelist
IBM InterConnect is imminent. Next week more than 20,000 people will descend on Las Vegas and take over the north end of the strip for IBM’s massive event. One of the primary topics attendees will be focusing on is DevOps. IBM’s Rosalind Radcliffe—a respected evangelist for DevOps—will be there to share her passion and knowledge […]
Yes, I said “Culture” again
“Culture”. Any time that two or more people get together to do anything — whether it’s DevOps, or marketing, or just eating lunch — they form a culture. Even if they pointedly ignore each other, it’s a kind of culture (just not a very good one). When we the preachers of DevOps say the word […]
The One Where All Hell Breaks Loose
Don’t you love a good story? This one is a DevOps story in a fictional enterprise. It’s the kind of story you’ve seen replayed countless times in large organizations. So settle in for a read. The backstory DChip Tech is a semiconductor company. They’re in the business of making chips for wearable computing since acquiring […]
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