I am incredibly excited for the second year of the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. I’ll be joining the top technology leaders from around the world for two days of high learning, networking, and exchanging insights with some of the best practitioners and subject matter experts anywhere. We return to London to hear where some […]
Pat Birkeland on Learning DevOps as an Ops Leader
I recently got a letter from someone that I had met last year, and it resonated with me for two reasons: it’s about how an Ops leader can gain DevOps skills, both for himself and for his team, and also because Pat and I both went through the Theory of Constraints program taught by Dr. […]
ITV, Allianz, UK DWP and Two DevOps Authors Take a “Deep Dive Into DevOps”
On the heels of our latest DevOps Enterprise Summit London speaker and programming announcement, I had the pleasure of being joined by Tom Clark, Head of Common Platform at ITV, Andrea Hirzle-Yager, Head of Department, IT at Allianz Deutschland AG, Mark Schwartz, CIO and author of The Art of Business Value and A Seat at […]
Rob Hirschfeld on Containers, Private Clouds, GIFEE and the Remaining “Underlay Problem”
Back in October of 2016, I was at OpenStack Conference in Barcelona and ran into a long-time friend, Rob Hirschfeld. He surprised me by talking about a problem domain that we have had discussions about for years, reframing it as “the data center underlay problem.” His provocative statement was that while OpenStack solves many problems, […]
10 Experts Reveal Patterns that Forecast DevOps Success
A recent #c9d9 LiveChat hosted by Electric Cloud featured DevOps leaders speaking at DOES16. During that event, guests were asked a question that elicited such valuable answers that we need to share it with you here. Question: What pattern you’ve seen has led to radically improved outcomes? 1. “The number one [pattern], I’d say is collaboration, increasing collaboration.” […]
How to Design With Conway’s Law in Mind
Part 3 of 4: Where to Start with DevOps Series Over the past few weeks, we have been discussing the necessary steps to start your DevOps transformation. In week one we covered the three key components to consider in choosing a starting place in this post: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With And then […]
Understanding the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow
Part 2 of 4: Where to Start with DevOps Series Last week, I highlighted how to identify a value stream to which you can begin to apply DevOps principles and patterns in this post: Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With Our next step in our DevOps transformation is to gain a sufficient understanding of […]
Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With
Part 1 of 4: Where to Start with DevOps Series Choosing the best value stream for your DevOps transformation deserves careful consideration. Not only does the value stream we choose dictate the difficulty of your transformation, but it also dictates who will be involved in the transformation, how we organize the teams, and how we […]
CASE STUDY: The Birth of Automated Testing at Google in 2005
The DevOps Handbook (download the free excerpt) is now available. This is one of over 40 case studies you will find in the book. The inside story on the problems the GWS team at Google needed to solve in 2005 that resulted in one of the most admired cultures of automated testing around. By implementing the […]
CASE STUDY: Etsy, Sprouter and Conway’s Law
The DevOps Handbook (download the free excerpt) is now available. This is one of over 40 case studies you will find in the book. How we organize our teams affects how we perform our work. Dr. Melvin Conway proved this with a famous experiment he performed in 1968 with a contract research organization that had eight […]
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