As businesses worked to stay afloat over the last year, innovation in many areas fell behind. Business leaders struggled to understand the short-term and long-term impact the COVID-19 pandemic would have on their business, while employees worried about losing their jobs and customers scrambled to rearrange budgets. As we near the end and can finally […]
3 Ways to Support DevOps Teams in Remote Work
As we settle into remote work for the long haul, it’s crucial to consider how best to support DevOps teams. While DevOps employees face similar challenges working remotely as any other department, they also face increased pressure to deliver as IT professionals, supporting the entire organization through an ever-changing work environment. By nature, remote work […]
Governance, Quality Critical in the New Digital Norm
The shift to digital is certainly not new. But the speed of digital adoption has been accelerated as organizations react to the COVID-19 pandemic and implement remote working and contactless or self-service channels for customers. What’s more, the evidence shows that trend is here to stay. Analyst Gartner’s CIO Agenda 2021 report shows that 76% […]
What Children Can Teach Us About Coding
Redgate’s Code Club for kids ended up teaching their parents to love coding again Like lots of people in IT and other office-based jobs, I’ve been working from home since the pandemic started to hit in March 2020. In some ways it’s been hard because I’m the technical lead on a software engineering team, and […]
Building (and Nurturing) a Product Team During a Pandemic
Building a successful product team is difficult under the best of circumstances. Building one during a pandemic raises the level of difficulty by an order of magnitude. But it’s not impossible. In early 2020, everything changed. For months now we’ve been scrambling, adapting to a new normal that none of us had the foresight to […]
Engaging Developers in a Post-COVID-19 World
The time for platforms to rethink how they engage developers is now How we communicate, socialize, look up information, work, shop and travel have all been transformed by platform companies. COVID-19 has only increased our reliance on these platforms, as people spend more time on the internet and businesses migrate from offline to online offerings. […]
Preparing for Digital Life After COVID-19
The shift to a digitally dependent remote workforce across numerous industries was instantaneous for organizations after the COVID-19 pandemic spread, and after months of adapting, this way of life has become “a new normal.” IT professionals are facing unprecedented pressure to meet the increased demands they are experiencing now and preparing for the changes that […]
What To Expect at a Virtual DevOps World 2020
DevOps World is coming soon and this means you can look forward to plenty of opportunities to learn about all things DevOps, network with like-minded professionals, attend in-depth training courses and technical workshops and just generally have some fun. DevOps World 2020 will have all those things. But, with the pandemic still impacting society, this […]
Surveys Show COVID-19 Changes to Enterprises Likely Long-Term
The global response by organizations to the novel coronavirus pandemic has been transformational. A recent survey of more than 500 senior decision-makers in the UK revealed just how much the virus forced enterprises to innovate. The independent survey, funded by London-based tech developer Studio Graphene, questioned about more than 500 decision-makers within UK enterprises. Since […]
Survey Shows Most IT Teams Adapting in New COVID-19 Normal
A survey of 122 IT professionals published today by SolarWinds in advance of IT Pro Day next week, finds that while IT teams are enjoying greater respect within their organizations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a third (31%) admit there’s a need to rethink internal processes to better accommodate rapid change. Overall, […]