Every year, IT Revolution gathers industry leaders and experts to discuss the challenges they face. Over the course of the three days, they work together to identify and create written guidance for the top problems facing the community. This year, they produced seven guidance papers on subjects ranging from shared services to cloud transformations. The full set of papers can be read for free in the Fall 2021 DevOps Enterprise Journal. 1. Accelerating Shared Services: Or How to Make Shared … [Read more...]
Top Five Attended Presentations from DevOps Enterprise Summit-US ’21
In October 2021, the DevOps and technology/business leadership communities once again came together for three days of experience reports, knowledge sharing, and learning. Here is our round-up of the top five attended presentations, which you can watch now in the IT Revolution Video Library. 1) How a DevOps Mindset is Influencing Target's Culture Target has shared their learnings at DevOps Enterprise Summit since 2015. This year, Luke Rettig, Sr. Director of Product Management, Merch … [Read more...]
How to Make Shared Services Suck Less
This post is an excerpt from the paper Accelerating Shared Services: How to Make Shared Services Suck Less by Charlie Betz, Scott Prugh, Erica Morrison, Scott Nasello, Adam Zimman, Damon Edwards, and Randy Shoup (with contributions from Julia Harrison). When defined and operated well, shared services teams can provide substantial efficiency and leverage to organizations. It is hard to imagine a large organization that does not centralize broadly useful capabilities. They are a legitimate … [Read more...]
Announcing The DevOps Handbook Second Edition
We're delighted to announce that over the last year we've been hard at work updating the iconic The DevOps Handbook! Originally written over the span of five years, authors Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis created the go-to guide for embarking on a DevOps transformation in any industry. Since the original publication in 2016, the book has gone on to sell more than 250,000 copies and be translated into 11 languages. As the five year anniversary approached, we decided it was … [Read more...]
Five Papers to Improve Software Delivery
Measure Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Culture to Optimize DevOps Transformation Metrics for DevOps initiatives Successful software outcomes depend on negotiation of requirements, accurate scoping of work, value judgments, innovations, team collaboration, software architecture, economic tradeoffs and user demand. Success is less dependent on contract quality, Gantt charts, critical path schedules, earned-value measurement, laws of physics, material properties, mature building codes, and … [Read more...]
Breaking the Change Management Barrier
This post is an excerpt of the Breaking the Change Management Barrier whitepaper by Ron Forrester, Sr., Jayne Groll, Chris Hill, Dr. Steve Mayner, Erica Morrison, Scott Nasello, Scott Prugh, and Rosalind Radcliffe. During an era of rising regulation and linear, waterfall software development, enterprises adopted a rigorous approach to IT’s change-management process in order to regulate releases into production systems and demonstrate auditable Information Technology (IT) controls. (For the … [Read more...]
What is GitOps?
By Cornelia Davis, Chris Hill, Dwayne Holmes, Tom Limoncelli, and Gail Murphy There isn't really clarity in the industry as to what GitOps is. After two days of discussion and consensus building at the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Forum, a team of experts came to the following conclusion: GitOps supports the DevOps agenda in a particularly effective manner (where Git is the interface for operational actions). But that's only the very highest level definition. The following post lays out a brief … [Read more...]
Taking a Fresh Look at Enterprise Business Systems
A group of industry experts tackled the challenge of ERP updating as part of the 2020 DevOps Enterprise Forum. This team (Pat Birkeland, Adrian Cockcroft, Damon Edwards, Chris Kernaghan, Courtney Kissler, Scott Nasello, Ron Olshausen, and Jim Sherwin) was primarily trying to offer guidance to enterprises about how they may think about the impact that digital transformation (DevOps, Lean, etc.) is placing on incumbent business systems (such as ERPs and middleware) within their integrated … [Read more...]
Complexity: The Enemy of Agility and Execution
As companies race to adopt new cloud computing technologies and systems to effectively compete as digital enterprises, they quickly discover that with new systems, applications, and processes comes monumental new complexity. At a fundamental level, legacy systems of record, which are critical to running core operating functions, like Finance, ERP, CRM, and HR were not designed to seamlessly connect with key systems of engagement or systems of intelligence used to create sustainable customer … [Read more...]
Architecture: The Seven Domains of Transformation
Why Is Architecture Important? Architecture exists within applications, solutions, and the enterprise, whether time, effort, and resources are allocated to it or not. Architectures evolve over time just like most processes and organizational priorities. To enable delivery teams to operate at their highest velocity and remove as many impediments as possible, a focus on architectural improvement and streamlining your product delivery capabilities is crucial. You must ensure that the transformation … [Read more...]
