Tag: Agility
Four Steps to Balance Agility and Security in DevSecOps
Balancing agility and security in DevSecOps is achievable with the right mix of automation, collaboration and continuous feedback. By embedding security into agile processes, organizations can deliver software that is both fast ...
The Path to App Modernization: Benefits, Pitfalls and the Route to Success
There are many reasons an organization may find itself on the path to considering the risky journey of application modernization. It could be to gain an edge or to build a more ...
Some Change is Bad
Some time toward the end of the year, I start considering the volume of change we, as practitioners, have been under for … literally years, even decades. And I start to try ...
Next Up: Portable CI
One thing that we're very good at in IT is breaking new ground, coming up with ideas that work astoundingly well, getting broad adoption, then standardizing them for interoperability. When a new ...
DevOps: Driving Innovation With Old Habits
DevOps can help drive cost-efficiency, greater productivity and innovation When software development and IT operations merge and work in a state of harmony, they create a flow that we call continuous product ...
Can NetOps and SecOps Finally Get Along?
For years, the very definition of NetOps and SecOps has involved friction and even contentious relationships that make their respective jobs more difficult and lessen their efficiency and effectiveness. Much of this ...
Review, Review, Review
Ossification is an issue in IT, and always has been. It is borne largely out of staff and management knowing what to expect from existing software/infrastructure, and the deep product knowledge that ...
Rigidity or Agility During Change Processes: You Do Have a Choice
As most who work in service management, on an IT team or as a member of the service desk understand that change management can be a rather rigid, shall we say, still ...
Break the Rules and Win at Digital Transformation
The rules of the game have changed. In today’s digital world, it’s not about the big eating the small. It’s the fast that beat the slow and the nimble that outmaneuver companies ...
Today’s DNS: DevOps’ New Best Friend
Continuous development and deployment is a primary focus of DevOps teams. As part of this process, DevOps teams also require the automatic creation or removal of networks, and automated deployment to production ...
In Product Development, Transparency is the New Agility
The rise of DevOps has shown that agility and speed are key drivers for turning a business into a high-growth company. But as product managers, that’s not all we can take away ...
How IT is More Like an ATV Than a Sedan
There is an analogy for IT being like a car and it often goes something like this: IT should run like a well-oiled machine. I don't get in my car and think about ...