Will you be at Velocity in Santa Clara this year? Join us on Tuesday night for a raucous party some good times with the IT Revolution crew. RSVP HERE (And check back during the event on 6/26 to download sample chapters of the novel) … [Read more...]
Japanese Terms For DevOps Practitioners
Gemba The Japanese meaning is "the real place". In business it typically means “where value is created” and in lean manufacturing it means “the factory or shop floor”. In Lean Six Sigma (LSS) it is common to hear the phrase “Going to Gemba” (meaning the real place where the work is being done). This is also sometimes referred to as process mapping. The reason this is an important word in terms of DevOps is that DevOps inherits a lot of ideas from LSS and the “Theory of Constraints” … [Read more...]
Photos From RSA Meetup And Announcing The DevOps Kanban Meetup
Once, a long long time ago, at a magical place called RSA, a few DevOpserati came together for a meetup of epic proportions. Debates raged, libations were consumed, and a good time was had by all. In fact, we had such a great time that we did it again in March at the Cloud Center in Sunnyvale, CA. Check out our photos from the events below. Our next ITRevolution gathering will take place at Velocity in Santa Clara on 6/26 at 7pm. See you at the Hyatt Regency Lobby bar to meet, brainstorm, … [Read more...]
Fighting Waste With DevOps: The 7 + 2 Types Of IT Waste
Much has been written about the 7 wastes found in manufacturing and office environments. These wastes were originally identified in the Toyota Production System over 50 years ago. However, there is a common lack of understanding when it comes to the best use of these definitions and their application in the world of software development, deployment and subsequent service. First let’s define the original 7 wastes (aka Seven Deadly Sins): 1. Overproduction – Creating more code, features and … [Read more...]
Kanban – Atlanta Limited WIP Society
We have fallen in love with Kanban and we have been motivated to start a Kanban meetup group in Atlanta. Just for fun we have created the – Kanban – Atlanta Limited WIP Society. http://www.meetup.com/Limited-WIP-Society-Atlanta/ Please pass the word. … [Read more...]
Nick Galbreath On Integrating Information Security Into DevOps
I had the pleasure of meeting Nick Galbreath (@ngalbreath) at the SxSW Interactive conference this year. He’s especially memorable to me in much the same way Josh Corman and James Wickett are. What they all have in common is that they believe that DevOps may be the best thing that’s happened to information security in a very long time. Nick is an information security practitioner who not only sees the value of DevOps-style practices to information security, but also lives and breathes it. … [Read more...]
DevOps Culture (Part 2)
Over the past few years I have interviewed hundreds of DevOps practitioners and I have also attended around 30 or more DevOps meetups around the globe. This included with my own experience has enabled me to come up with a good list of what I will call patterns of DevOps Kaizen habits. The following is a list of patterns of Kaizen habits. Communication Sounds like it should be the easiest of all patterns. Of course, it isn’t. There have been many great books on this subject by people … [Read more...]
DevOps Culture (Part 1)
After the first US based Devopsdays in Mountainview 2010 Damon Edwards (@damonedwards) and I coined the acronym CAMS, which stands for Culture, Automation, Measurement and Sharing. Jez Humble (@jezhumble) later added an L, standing for Lean, to form CALMS. In this post I wanted to start with an introduction and overview of what culture might look like in the DevOps movement and identify some patterns. Patrick Debois, (@patrickdebois) godfather of the DevOps movement, always says DevOps is a … [Read more...]
@Botchagalupe and @Cote at Devopsdays Austin
Michael Cote (@cote) and I recently met up at DevOpsDays Austin, and, naturally, a video interview ensued. We jokingly talked about getting the band back together and maybe starting up our old IT Management podcast series. For those of you who remember, we stopped recording after Michael left RedMonk and went to Dell. As you’ll see, it didn't take long for us to get back into a great rhythm. In this video we talked about some of the conclusions made in Michael's DevOpsDays Austin … [Read more...]
The Convergence of DevOps
I'd like to describe how DevOps is the culmination of three amazing and significant movements. This is what we're putting into the DevOps Cookbook. So the saying goes “If I could have a nickel for every time I have heard the expression "Cloud? We've been doing that for 20 years!” I would be a ...” So goes DevOps. The funny thing is that most people are right in saying "we've been doing DevOps for years." That's mainly because there is not good canonical definition for DevOps. However, the … [Read more...]
