The Scrum framework is a staple part of many businesses – and for good reason. The agile process is used to construct, deliver and iterate products and has proven to boost cross-functional teams’ productivity, as well as product quality. And, like most processes, Scrum can be mastered with the right training and commitment. Specifically, a […]
DevOps Job Titles Emerging in Enterprise IT Organizations
IT job functions and, by extension, individual titles inside the classic enterprise have been relatively constant. Various hierarchies of developers labored separately alongside IT operations teams that focused mainly on infrastructure. However, the emphasis on continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) within the context of a modern DevOps environment is starting to blur the lines […]
Demystifying Scrum for the Ops Crowd
Scrum is, by far, the most popular way development teams are organized and work. In fact, well over 70 percent of Agile teams around the world use Scrum. But for those unfamiliar with the structure, Scrum may look like a strange collection of rituals and oddly named designations, such as the “Scrum Master.” However, behind […]
The Forgotten Fourth Question
A very well-written paragraph about DevOps appears in Mike Loukides’ book, “What is DevOps”: … Modern applications, running in the cloud, still need to be resilient and fault tolerant, still need monitoring, still need to adapt to huge swings in load, etc. But those features, formerly provided by the IT/operations infrastructures, now need to be […]