What were once thought to be irreconcilable movements are now finding common ground, or are they? Alan Shimel of DevOps.com sits down with this great panel of ITSM, ITIL and DevOps experts— Cherry Vu, Rob England, and Jayne Groll to discuss how DevOps and ITSM can compliment each other and what the future holds for both. This interview was conducted during the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London 2018. Some of the responses have been edited for brevity and clarity. Watch the full interview … [Read more...]
Write a DevOps Haiku and Win Books!
DevOps practitioners, IT Revolution Press challenges you to DevOps a haiku. Share your creative writing chops and break the construct that says DevOps ideas are only shippable in prose. The prize for your creative endeavors? The fun of doing something nerdtastic! Plus, one lucky winner will receive their choice of three IT Revolution Press books. The Rules: All haikus must conform to a 3-line, 5/7/5 syllable format. All haikus must include some element, principle, or approach used in … [Read more...]
Q&A With Mirco Hering and Gene Kim
Recently, Gene Kim had a chance to speak with Mirco Hering about Mirco's new book, DevOps for the Modern Enterprise. Gene Kim: What inspired you to write DevOps for the Modern Enterprise? Mirco Hering: To be honest, there are a number of DevOps books in the market and I was wondering whether I had something unique to say. But then I realized that not a lot has been written of the complex organizational environments that people find themselves in with legacy applications and multiple … [Read more...]
Call for presentations: Next Generation Ops and Infrastructure Practices
This is a time of enormous disruption in technology — just look at the words that define this era: DevOps, automation, cloud native, digital transformation. However, one of the groups being disrupted the most and under the most pressure is IT Operations in large, complex enterprises. There are simultaneous demands to move faster, be more secure, move to cloud, give more access to developers, automate at a scale never seen before, upskill the workforce, etc. Because of all the exciting new … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 7 & 8 – The Panel & Case Studies
Earlier this week, I wrote about the first six modules of Beyond The Phoenix Project, along with excerpts from each — this is from the nine hours of recorded audio that John Willis and I created, summarizing hundreds of hours of research into the bodies of knowledge that DevOps draws most heavily upon. (By the way, we’ve gotten an update — Beyond The Phoenix Project will be available on Audible and iTunes sometime next week.) Today, I want to tell you about the remaining modules: The Panel … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 4, 5, 6 –Lean, Safety Culture and Learning Organizations
Earlier this week, I described the first three modules of Beyond The Phoenix Project, along with excerpts from the first three hours — this is from the nine hours that John Willis and I created from the audio series, resulting from hundreds of hours of research into the bodies of knowledge that DevOps draws upon. Today, I wanted to share with you details from the next three modules: Lean, Safety Culture, and Learning Organizations. The first two of these areas, Lean and Safety Culture, are … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 1, 2, 3 – Making The Book, Goldratt, & Deming
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, John Willis and I created nine hours of audio for Beyond The Phoenix Project, which is being released later this week. During the hundreds of hours of research and preparation, we explored many of the key pioneering researchers whose bodies of knowledge we draw upon so heavily in the DevOps movement. In the next email, I’ll share some of the highlights from the modules on Lean, safety culture and resilience engineering. But today, our focus is the story of … [Read more...]
