I was interviewed by Alan Shimel of DevOps.com at DevOpsWorld/JenkinsWorld 2019 in San Fransisco. Check it out. Check out my recent post: Modernizing you Data Strategy for a data-driven business
Category: Agile
Adopting DevOps – Part V: Addressing Data Friction
Around 18 or so months ago (mid-2017) I started seeing a new trend in the DevOps adoption engagements my colleagues and I were driving. (I was with IBM at that time as their global CTO of DevOps Adoption, leading the cross IBM-business unit DevOps adoption practice). Clients we were working with were beginning to ask…
Video: A Risk driven model for balancing Optimization and Innovation in the multi-speed enterprise
Organizations have been struggling with models to classify their applications, such as: ‘Systems of Record vs Engagement’, ‘Bi-modal IT’, ‘Multi-speed IT’, etc. However, these models do not leverage what really matters to business: Risk. This session will introduce a model for classifying applications based on Risk. At one end of the spectrum we have applications…
Slides: Unicorns on an Aircraft Carrier – achieving Agility in Traditional Orgs
Slides from my keynote talks at the DevOps.com hosted CDSummit events in London and Stockholm earlier this week are now posted:  
Understanding DevOps – Part 5: Infrastructure as Code
Imagine you are a seasoned operations engineer (you know, neck beard and all). Over your career you have most certainly developed a toolkit of scripts that you can use, with minor changes, to perform all your regular tasks of provisioning and managing the plethora of environments you have seen and dealt with over the years….