The advent of both Agile development and DevOps were great steps in improving an IT process that had become ossified, with policies that alternated between resistance to change and trying […]
Improving Security with Mapping, Automation and DevOps
Strong cybersecurity is paramount for every organization. But all too often, security teams are disconnected from ongoing development processes and viewed either as an impediment to bringing products to market […]
A Daily Gemba Walk for a Software Delivery Organization?
Lean thinking has had a substantial influence on helping enterprises to improve the flow of value across their software delivery organization. Yet, for many companies in what industry visionary Brian […]
Secrets of Value Stream Mapping for Future State
Value stream mapping is an enormously rewarding process for finding bottlenecks in your software delivery pipelines and for aligning the team’s efforts in improving the shortcomings. Performing an effective mapping […]
Value Stream Optimization: Putting Business in the Driver’s Seat
How value stream can be a major driver of DevOps success in today’s software-only world Even as DevOps reaches a pinnacle in acceptance (as of 2018, only three percent of […]
Scripts in the Development Pipeline: Best Practices for Avoiding the ‘Scriptocalypse’
The use of scripts as a key tool in the average developer’s bag of tricks has altered the development pipeline in significant ways. It has even led some organizations to […]
Maximize Your Enterprise DevOps Efforts and Outcomes with Value Streams
Overview Enterprise software organizations need to modernize and transform their software development processes to gain and keep their competitive advantage by accelerating delivery of business value to customers to meet […]
DevOps Chat: Value Stream Mapping with CollabNet’s Eric Robertson
This DevOps Chat features Eric Robertson, VP of product and engineering at CollabNet. We discuss value stream mapping, which comes from Lean methodology and has been around for a while. […]
Lean for DevOps: Mapping the tributaries and deltas of demand
Here at IBM’s Lean practice we use a diagram called ‘Mississippi’ to analyze demand. It is not so-called because it originates in Mississippi – in fact I’ve been given to […]
Lean Value Stream Mapping for DevOps
Value Stream Mapping is a crucial step in assessing an organization’s DevOps capability. We create a value stream map of the software development lifecycle early in any DevOps engagement, because […]
