Slides: IBM Innovate 2013 Session – DevOps 101

I delivered a session on the Basics of DevOps at IBM Innovate earlier this week (Session #1147A). The session went great (I think) with well over a 100 attendees. Here are the slides: IBM Innovate 2013 Session: DevOps 101 from Sanjeev Sharma An Updated version of these slides is available here – DevOps 101 –…

Headed to IBM Innovate

I am writing this on my flight to IBM Innovate in Orlando, FL. Innovate is always exciting as IBM Rational’s flagship Users Conference it is the place to be to learn where Rational is headed and meet all the experts, both Rational Employees and customers. This year is going to especially exciting with the even…

Adopting DevOps – Part III: Aligning the Dev and Ops Teams

DevOps as a philosophy has had as its centerpiece the principle that Dev and Ops teams need to align better. This is a people and organizational principle, not a process centric principle. To me this is more important when adopting DevOps than any other capability or tool. My last post focussed on the need to…

Adopting DevOps – Part II: The Need for Organizational Change

One of the key goals of DevOps is to reduce the gap that exists between Dev and Ops. It is what causes water-SCRUM-fall, when it comes to the Dev and Ops communication and collaboration. (The gap between corporate teams like EA, Security and other ‘approval boards’ and ‘gates’ is another story for another post). Whether…

My sessions at IBM Innovate 2013

IBM Innovate schedule of sessions is out! I have four sessions I am presenting – one for each day. Here is the schedule of my sessions: Number Name Where When 1147A DevOps 101 Swan – Swan 3 Sun, 2/Jun, 02:45 PM – 03:45 PM   1574A Mobile DevOps – Challenges and Best Practices (with Leigh…