Tag: DevOps

Research study: The State of Software Delivery Management

Software Delivery Management and Value Stream Management – these two terms have been getting a lot of traction and attention of late as organizations enhance their focus on understanding where they are (or are not) getting the ‘value’ from the software they are delivering. Where do they need to invest in order to ensure that they…

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Multi-Cloud Snake Oil

tl;dr Most multi-cloud management solutions are pure snake oil. Buyer beware. And you most likely don’t even need Multi-cloud. Let’s take the scenario of an online Flower vendor. They sell bouquets and arrangements of Flowers via e-commerce and deliver them across the country. They have two big events year which account for around 92% of…

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You don’t need SRE. What you need is SRE.

Ever since Google published the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) book in 2016, the SRE movement has changed how organizations look at reliability, and incident response and management. Not unlike DevOps, working on adopting SRE is resulting in an organizational cultural shift. A shift which is changing how organizations are organized, on how information flows within an organization that would allow for…

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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…

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