“I Keep Six Honest Serving Men” is a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling. Take help from these honest men in a brave and dangerous new DevOps world: I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. I send them over land and sea, […]
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 Human Factor in DevOps
DevOps is about pinpointing and eliminating bottlenecks in order to deploy code often—shortening the time-to-market and increasing quality and effectiveness. One of the most common bottlenecks in the release process is the interaction between the developers and the integration services/operations group. Development (Dev) is entrusted with producing innovative software quickly while Operations (Ops) knows that […]
Separation Anxiety & the Leap from Dated IT Approaches to DevOps
Never ASSUME! I assumed that the drag on moving from IT as we knew it to a DevOps approach (with its continuous software deployment and other advantages) was due to the separation anxiety and fears of loss or change on the part of enterprises on the whole. As you may know from the 70’s TV […]
Encouraging a ‘big picture’ view of enterprise DevOps
Welcome to the latest post in a series where I answer some of the many questions on how to approach an Enterprise DevOps transformation at scale. Human issues continue to pop up – not surprising, as people and culture are at the heart of DevOps. This next question asks how to encourage a ‘big picture’ […]