Agile doesn’t excuse bad communications, and DevOps is not short for ‘random change on a whim.’ Don MacVittie explains the importance of a clear product roadmap.
DevOps: Driving Innovation With Old Habits
DevOps can help drive cost-efficiency, greater productivity and innovation When software development and IT operations merge and work in a state of harmony, they create a flow that we call continuous product delivery. Ideal for project managers, this flow is the elixir to innovation and enables the agility needed to respond to changing market requirements. […]
How Mainframes Live On
TL/DR: Highly controlled change is sometimes the best answer. For much of my career, I’ve worked in mainframe shops. I have never worked on a mainframe team, but I have worked closely with them. I’m in Northeast Wisconsin, and at one point we had the highest per-capita number of mainframes in the world, so pretty […]
DevOps: The Innovation Power Couple
If “Dev” and “Ops” are the power couple of tech, “DevOps” is the holy matrimony that takes innovation from trainwreck to fast and repeatable. At most businesses, however, Dev and Ops still sleep in separate rooms and agree only on their mutual contempt. Dev (Development) and Ops (IT Operations) usually are divorced or ready to […]
The 3 Secrets to Overcoming the Agility-Stability Paradox
Regardless of whether an organization subscribes to a bimodal IT approach, one thing is clear: It’s more important, and more difficult, than ever to fight the agility-stability paradox. Today’s businesses must build on a delicate balance of being compliant, plan-driven and keeping the lights on while also seeking ways to become more fluid and agile […]
The business benefits of DevOps
As DevOps has become more of a mainstream concept it seems like there’s less need to define what it is or explain what it does. As prevalent as DevOps is for those of us who work in the world of DevOps or organizations that have already embraced DevOps there are still many businesses out there […]
Continuous Testing System Stability
The effort to speed up continuous testing will be wasted if the underlying system that continuous testing depends on is not stable. In my prior blog Continuous Test Results Analysis – at the Speed of DevOps, I discussed the importance and practices for speeding up continuous testing results analysis. However, unless the continuous test system […]