Dipping back into the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 well, today’s feature is my talk with Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft. Sam presented on the transformation he oversaw at Microsoft’s Visual Studio moving to Visual Studio Online. It is the story of COTS to SaaS and all of the pitfalls and idiot taxes Sam and team paid along […]
DOES 15 videos – Adrian Cockcroft
At this years DevOps Enterprise Summit we were very happy to partner with Gene Kim’s IT Revolution and Electric Cloud to conduct on site interviews with just about all of the speakers from this years conference, as well as many other attendees. All in all staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud conducted something like 86 video interviews over the 3 […]
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 […]
5 DevOps Success Factors Surfacing At DOES 15
Two days into a breakneck schedule of energizing presentations at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 (DOES 2015) and there are already some common themes bubbling up from the speakers and attendees. As IT practitioners from big name enterprises like Capital One, HP, Target, Ticketmaster and more step up to the podium to share their personal stories […]
Live blogging DOES 2015
We will be live blogging from DOES 2015. Ericka Chickowski and Alan Shimel are live at the show in case you can’t be here yourself.
DevOps Chat: IBM draws on deep DevOps experience to launch Bluemix Garage Method
With the start of the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 this morning IBM has made what they are touting as a major announcement. Drawing on their wide and deep experience in DevOps across multiple segments of the company, they have announced Garage Method. What exactly is Bluemix Garage Method? Great question. I spoke today with […]
DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 kicks off
Are you going to San Francisco? If you are you don’t have to wear a flower in your hair. But if you are into DevOps or want to be and are in San Francisco this week you should be at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 (DOES 2015). The conference produced and hosted by Gene Kim’s IT […]
DevOps for Systems of Record – A new hope (Preview of DOES talk)
I am speaking at the DevOps Enterprise Summit later in the month and thought I give people a teaser of what I am going to talk about, so that they know what to expect. I am looking forward to share my story – a story of adversity but also of hope – with many of […]
The Women of DevOps
No, this isn’t about some new calendar featuring scantily clad IT chicks. In fact the fact you even thought that is half the problem. This article arises out of the fact that I was speaking with a colleague the other day and once again had to regretfully recite that something like 95% of you reading […]
DOES15 – A Focus on DevOps Execution
“I recently attended my second DevOpsDays, and even one year later I noticed that the audience had changed a lot” – says Travis Cunningham a Software Engineer at SmartFile during an interview about their development environment. What Travis is speaking to is the fact that DevOps has matured dramatically in a short amount of time. […]