Value stream management (VSM) is a term we hear with higher frequency. DevOps, Agile, Lean and contemporary application development are very dynamic. These rapid, dynamic approaches can make the software development process opaque to the broader organization. It’s early in this part of the market, but it’s born out the need for quantifying the business […]
Automated Multiplatform Deployment for DevOps
In a simpler world, every CI/CD pipeline would need to support only one deployment platform. In the real world, multiplatform deployment (which means deploying an application to run on multiple OS platforms) is a must-have for many organizations. We live in an age of diverse operating systems and deploying for only one platform is often […]
DevOps Chat: Measuring DevOps Success with Steve Boone, UrbanCode
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Steve Boone, product owner and development manager for Urban Code Deploy. Now that DevOps is in practice at more organizations, measuring DevOps success is a question many are asking. Steve has helped hundreds of companies adopt, implement and scale their agile and DevOps practices as part of their digital […]
How I Bet on DevOps – and Won
One evening in late 2015, after the kids were in bed, I sat down next to my wife and said, “I’d like to do something irresponsible. I want to gamble some of our savings on DevOps. I’d like to buy some stock.” Nicole Forsgren’s 2014 presentation, “DevOps and the Bottom Line,” opened my eyes to […]
The New Age of “Operations” in a DevOps Enterprise
My encounters with commercial clients in the DevOps space have been exciting, curious, political, and challenging. What most don’t realize is that DevOps is not just about infusing tool automation into a delivery pipeline, but it also has to do with re-mobilizing and challenging the status quo when it comes to “who does what”. As […]
Does Automating Application Release Mean the Same that it Used to?
Over the last ten years, we have seen a shift towards automation in how applications have been released. Automation has been encouraged first by agile’s embrace of continuous integration and delivery, and now the broader move to DevOps. As deployment automation left the sphere of the individual development team, another trend has emerged. The understanding […]
Transforming applications with Cloud and DevOps – one hybrid solution for multiple challenges
Are you on cloud yet or clouded? The answer lies in how you have adopted the transformation. Today, the world is Hybrid. For large enterprises and organizations, it always has been. Almost no enterprise is monolithic when it comes to their environments. They may already have different distributed environments and/or mainframes in their ecosystem. The […]
IBM Webcast Nov 18 : Rapid and Continuous Delivery to Hybrid Clouds
Organizations need to innovate at speed. As software has become increasingly critical to business outcomes, delivering high quality changes quickly has become a competitive necessity. With rapidly changing applications has come a dynamic, programmable infrastructure that can meet changing business needs in the blink of an eye. In a word: Cloud. But how do development […]