I help technology and business teams transform into simpler, smarter and safer delivery units by adopting principles,practices and methods from Agile, DevOps, Kanban, modern engineering practices, lean and newer operating models.
I have extensive experience of Agile, DevOps, Waterfall and Hybrid delivery approaches. My roles covered Enterprise DevOps transformation, Agile coaching and QA Service transformation focused on Engineering and DevOps practices. My career since 2000 has spanned the spectrum of software delivery life cycle from development to deployment across geographies in Asia, Africa, UK and Europe.
We are all familiar with ‘everything-as-code’—a pattern that started with infrastructure-as-code and has now extended to other areas such as architecture-as-code, security-as-code and more. However, all the incarnations we have seen so ...
Recently, I had a fascinating conversation with my old friend Joe–the name has been changed but the conversation is real and unedited–an IT Infrastructure program manager from a large IT service provider ...
Choosing the right DevOps tools should be a careful, thoughtful process. On May 12, 1848, a store owner named Sam Brannan held a “one-man parade” to announce the start of the San ...
We still hear a lot about mode-1 and mode-2 in enterprise IT. Like many other large enterprises, you might have adopted the terminology introduced by Gartner and use it every day to ...
Are we potentially facing a shortage of mainframe talent? "Three of us set up this tool in 1989. One is retired, and the other person is somewhere in heaven!" That was the ...
Some of my Agile and DevOps transformation work, not surprisingly, involves helping clients with tooling adoption—to set up, scale and operate across the organization. This blog piece is about a recent experience ...
Shadow IT is back, and this time, it's in the DevOps toolstack "One of our clients conducted an audit and found more than 10,000 Jenkins instances across their IT landscape!" This remark ...
In my previous blog, I explored how new ways of working—DevOps, Agile, cloud and startup thinking—have brought in a tectonic shift in the ways of working of enterprises. For infrastructure leadership and ...
"Business is technology and technology is business" seems to be the new mantra as the rules of corporate strategy are being rewritten across industries. According to IDC’s survey in 2017, “Two-thirds of ...
The word "legacy" evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver ...
