Any company that has created a product in the digital sphere will no doubt be familiar with the purpose of design sprints. Traditionally both back-end and front-end developers, designers, marketing teams and other stakeholders in the company come together over the course of five days to prototype ideas, gather insights on users and validate them […]
Culture, Not Changing Much in DevOps
One of the things that has bemused me from day one of the DevOps movement is how culture is viewed with an odd dichotomy. It is simultaneously DevOps’ greatest strength and its greatest weakness. Of course, there is a simple and reasonable explanation for this phenomenon. DevOps wants to change culture. Cultures that are resistant […]
DevOps: Making Developer Experience Reality
As DevOps professionals, among other things we are responsible for making developers’ lives a little bit easier. How many times have you heard, “Do you have a working vagrant box?” Or maybe you need to set aside a few days to onboard a new developer. Many times a development environment is created when a project […]
What Comes after DevOps? Two Possibilities
People have been talking about the “post-DevOps” world since at least 2014. But have we actually arrived in the post-DevOps era? If so, what comes after DevOps? Let’s explore those questions. The DevOps concept is more than a decade old. DevOps has seen widespread adoption across companies large and small. “DevOps engineer” is now a […]
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 […]