Entries in the category "DevOps"

In her January 2023 CIO article, The 10 Most In-Demand Tech Jobs for 2023 — and How to Hire for Them, Sarah K. White reports, “The ongoing tight IT job market has companies doing whatever they can to attract top tech talent.”

World-renowned DevOps guru Gene Kim who is also a co-author of several DevOps publications, details many difficulties faced by organizations – and how to overcome them – in his book, The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data. He explains how using the five ideals can lead to a positive and lasting business, technology, and cultural transformation.

The Scenario It’s July 24, 2020. The CEO of car-parts manufacturer Parts Unlimited (PU) has just stepped down and the new CEO has his work cut out for him. The share price is tumbling, and the company’s archrival is outpacing them at every turn. PU has also failed...

The pressure is on. Organizations that want to be technically innovative and remain competitive are expected to deliver quality value ever more rapidly at a reasonable cost. This reality led to the increasing demand for the automation of IT services, but one major barrier stood in the way. The typical...

Around 10 years ago DevOps was born. Since then, everyone has come to recognize how important it is for development and operations to work together. But, how does an organization go from “let’s do it!” to breaking down silos and having everyone work in harmony with shared goals and values – and, most importantly, positive attitudes?

The basic concept of DevOps sounds so easy – development and operations should work as one unit – so why is it so difficult for them to build a collaborative environment and achieve the promise of increasing the speed and flow of service value delivery? In his webinar, Troy DuMoulin - one of the world's foremost experts in IT Service management, defines the larger context of DevOps before taking a deep dive into the 15 essential DevOps practices, as well as a comprehensive tool for measuring process maturity. Watch it now...

An IT Executive's request: ‘I want my operations teams to understand more about DevOps, what it means to them in terms of a ‘mindset’ and behavior shift, and why adopting DevOps ways of working is necessary. We need to shift from a technology focus to a product and business value focus’.

Why this request?

As DevOps truly enters mainstream and Digital Transformation becomes the latest catchphrase, organizations are realizing that DevOps is, as the late Robert Stroud described it, an ‘imperative for survival’. But as Robert went on to add, ‘changing institutionalized behavior is the toughest of all management challenges’.

IT industry experts and forecasters are all talking about it – the time for DevOps is now. Where is your organization with regards to applying DevOps? Are you on par with your peers?

An infographic published by Forrester Research shows that 90% of the DevOps professionals surveyed say their organizations have either implemented DevOps (13%), implemented and are expanding DevOps (50%) or are planning to implement DevOps within the next 12 months (27%).

We’re SO excited about PinkFORUM18 next week! To share this excitement, we offer you a kaleidoscope of sneak peeks of some of the exciting sessions included at the event! Here are a few highlights (in no particular order) of the content-rich program:

I am struck by the volume and frequency of talk in our industry around the need for better collaboration and communication in business and IT today. We have been talking about this for a very long time and even more so with the increased prominence of Agile, Lean, and DevOps.

I often ask clients and students how important collaboration and communication is to the success of their work and organization, and the answer is always “important.” My follow-up question is how effective is communication and collaboration in your organization, and invariably the responses range from OK, fair to poor. I do this to illustrate a point: why does this gap exist?