In this week’s #TheLongView: Working from home is here to stay, and Agile is still a failure.
Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why
In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture.
Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours.
All Day DevOps, Viewed from the Outside
This year was my first All Day DevOps event. I loved it, as much as I was able to attend. I was especially interested in how DevOps worked with government, as I work in state government. We don’t use DevOps. My guess is that if you work in state or local government, your group also […]
The 7C Holistic Approach to DevOps
The DevOps methodology was first adopted in 2007 with a bigger purpose of improving organizational efficiency by bridging the gap between software release and IT operations teams. This started as the core practice of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) with a prime focus on better quality of releases and more frequent releases. Now, […]
Break the Rules and Win at Digital Transformation
The rules of the game have changed. In today’s digital world, it’s not about the big eating the small. It’s the fast that beat the slow and the nimble that outmaneuver companies constrained by old systems and business models. What’s more, the finish line is always moving. The rapid pace of innovation and disruption means […]
Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment
I am often asked, “if we are using a continuous integration (CI) server and adopting a continuous delivery pipeline, where does continuous deployment fit in?” Good question. In a nutshell, continuous delivery engines such as CloudBees or Blue Ocean are designed to trigger the execution of CI workflows across the dev, test and prod environments. […]
DevOps Chat: Waterfall Will Not Disappear, with Flint Brenton, CEO Collabnet
One of the perks of being editor in chief of staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud is I get a chance to meet with so many leaders of the DevOps and IT industry. You can really learn a lot by listening to what these folks say. This DevOps Chat is a perfect example. I sat down with Flint Brenton, CEO […]
Mainframes and the Myth of Bimodal in DevOps
Rewind 20 years ago when we lived in a business world where big companies with unlimited resources beat out smaller, more strapped companies. The digital era—also known as the “age of the customer”—is changing all that. Where big once beat small, fast now beats slow. The DevOps approaches of startups often make them more adept […]
Test-First Development: Processes and Tools for Success
A lot of software development teams are talking about “test-first” methodologies. The practice involves moving testing up into the very earliest stages of development so automated tests can be written before code. Making this seemingly minor shift can result in much higher quality software and greater efficiencies. Integrating development and testing avoids needless late-stage bugs […]