In my journey, some of the moments I treasure the most are hanging out and learning from some of the best thinkers in the DevOps community. Without a doubt, this includes Jez Humble, famous for the book he co-authored with David Farley, “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation”. (In my opinion, Jez is not only one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, he is also one of the most decent human beings on the planet. He’s one of the co-authors … [Read more...]
Uncovering The DevOps Improvement Principles At Google (Randy Shoup Interview)
ShoupArticle3 In the previous blog post, I described Dr. Steven Spear’s amazing book called The High Velocity Edge, and his model of the structure and dynamics of high-velocity organizations. In this post, I will summarize the two hours of interviews I did with Randy Shoup to fill in the gaps in my knowledge of the causal model of how organizations doing DevOps sustain their amazing performance. Randy Shoup has helped lead engineering teams at eBay and Google, and is one of the best … [Read more...]
Book Review: "The High Velocity Edge" by Dr. Steven Spear
In this blog post, I am going to tell you about the book The High Velocity Edge by Dr. Steven Spear. This book has influenced me tremendously, and especially for the two major projects I’m currently working on: the upcoming DevOps Cookbook (which we finally completed our first manuscript draft, which early reviewers will see sometime this week) and the upcoming 2015 State Of DevOps Survey (in collaboration with Jez Humble, Dr. Nicole Foresgren, Puppet Labs and PwC). I actually read this book … [Read more...]
DevOps Enterprise Summit Videos
Thank you for making the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2014 such a success. Not only was it evident that a community of practice exists that cares about implementing DevOps principles and practices in large, complex organizations, it's obviously a vibrant one. At the conference, we assembled 50 speakers who shared their journeys, and as well as 700 fellow travelers with similar goals and values. And maybe most importantly, we found ways we can help each other achieve our goals and get from “here to … [Read more...]
Organizational Learning And Competitiveness: Revisiting The “Allspaw/Hammond 10 Deploys Per Day At Flickr” Story
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Jim Stoneham, currently the is CEO of Opsmatic. In 2009, he was the general manager of the Yahoo Communities business unit, of which Flickr became a part of. Yes, 2009 was also the year of the famous John Allspaw and Paul Hammond Velocity “10 Deploys A Day” presentation about the amazing work they had done at Flickr. Jim’s story gave me an entirely new perspective on the amazing Allspaw/Hammond work, especially around the experiential … [Read more...]
At A Glance: 2014 DevOps Enterprise Summit Speakers, Attendees and Submissions
I’m extremely excited to share with you some of the details on the selected speakers for the DevOps Enterprise Summit (http://devopsenterprise.io), as well as information of the attendees who have already registered. In our call for speakers, we asked practitioners and leaders to submit their stories of how they’ve transformed how software and services are delivered in large, complex organizations using DevOps, Agile and Continuous Delivery principles and practices. Our goal is to: share the … [Read more...]
Interview with David Ashman, Chief Architect at Blackboard Learn
IT Revolution interviewed David Ashman on his definition of DevOps, his DevOps journey, and how DevOps has affected Blackboard. This is the first of a series of interviews with DevOps practitioners. For audio, click here. Todd: Good morning! Welcome to the IT Revolution Podcast. I'm your host today, Todd Sattersten, and today I'm talking with David Ashman. He’s the Chief Architect at Blackboard, and we're going to talk about DevOps. Good morning David! David: Good morning! Todd: Let's … [Read more...]
Gartner Risk-Adjusted Value Model: Resource Guide for “The Phoenix Project” (Part 4)
In "The Phoenix Project," Bill and John use the GAIT-R principles and methodology (described in far more detail here) to discover how all the top company objectives on the CFO's two-page PowerPoint slide deck rely on IT. (This blog article continues the description of the "body of knowledge" that underpins "The Phoenix Project," which started in Part 1: Reading Lists, Part 2: Kanban And DevOps and Part 3: Auditing and DevOps ). Here are links to all four posts: Part 1: Where To Learn More … [Read more...]
Audit 101 For DevOps: Resource Guide for "The Phoenix Project" (Part 3: Correctly Scoping IT Using GAIT and GAIT-R)
This blog article continues the description of the “body of knowledge” that underpins “The Phoenix Project,” which started in Part 1: Reading Lists and Part 2: Kanban And DevOps. Here are links to all four posts: Part 1: Where To Learn More About Concepts In "The Phoenix Project" https://itrevolution.com/learn-more-about-concepts-in-phoenix-project/ Part 2: Kanbans https://itrevolution.com/resource-guide-for-the-phoenix-project-kanbans-part-2/ Part 3: Audit and correctly scoping the IT … [Read more...]
Kanbans and DevOps: Resource Guide for "The Phoenix Project" (Part 2)
This blog article continues the description of the "body of knowledge" that underpins "The Phoenix Project," which started in Part 1. Here are links to all four posts: Part 1: Where To Learn More About Concepts In "The Phoenix Project" https://itrevolution.com/learn-more-about-concepts-in-phoenix-project/ Part 2: Kanbans https://itrevolution.com/resource-guide-for-the-phoenix-project-kanbans-part-2/ Part 3: Audit and correctly scoping the IT … [Read more...]
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