This document discusses DevOps and its challenges in the enterprise. It identifies 5 common pitfalls that enterprises face when adopting DevOps: 1) lack of understanding of DevOps terminology, 2) balancing development and operations interests and accountability, 3) establishing the correct culture, 4) finding champions for buy-in, and 5) justifying DevOps to the business. It then provides recommendations for addressing these challenges, such as focusing on customer experience, using cloud services to improve processes, and establishing metrics to measure DevOps success.
Next Generation IT Delivery - What it means to deliver atthe speed of the Dig...Mirco Hering
We live in the Digital Age and IT delivery needs to get faster and faster...I presented this point of view at the Accenture Test Symposium in Australia in 2015.
1) The document discusses Accenture's DevOps capability group and their focus on DevOps transformations with clients. It describes how the group is embedded in wider client delivery and support within Accenture.
2) The group aims to scale DevOps adoption by starting small with continuous delivery pipelines and then expanding automation and sharing successes enterprise-wide.
3) The group provides services like training, consultancy, tools, and platforms to help clients replicate successes and improve DevOps capabilities over time.
DevOps & Cloud - The Essentials for Digital TransformationCloudJourneee
Learn how DevOps and Cloud can help in Digital Transformation. The deck covers:
Digital Transformation - The Current Organizational Scenario
Understanding the DevOps – Cloud Relationship
Building & Managing Cloud Applications with DevOps
Use Cases
Benefits of Moving to Cloud with DevOps
Evolution of the DevOps Quality Management OfficeCapgemini
This document discusses the evolution of the DevOps Quality Management Office (QMO). It outlines the vision of continuous business-driven testing to reduce the time between development and operations. Key aspects of the DevOps-driven testing approach include continuous integration and delivery, lean techniques, standardization, test optimization, and establishing a hybrid test organization. The document also compares traditional vs DevOps testing approaches and provides examples of DevOps testing success levers. It proposes that the QMO can advise on developing a DevOps strategy and roadmap to improve throughput, availability, and time to market.
This document discusses how DevOps can help companies adapt to today's fast-paced technology environment by breaking down silos between development and operations teams. It argues that DevOps allows for faster software releases, continuous delivery, and greater agility while still maintaining quality and control. The document outlines five benefits of adopting DevOps and how it impacts different roles within an organization. It also provides an overview of the typical phases involved in a DevOps transformation project.
Scaling DevOps - delivering on the promise of business velocity and qualityXebiaLabs
This document summarizes a webinar presented by Robert Stroud and Tim Buntel on scaling DevOps practices. The webinar discussed how only 23% of enterprises deploy code monthly or faster, highlighting a need to improve release velocity. It also showed that organizations with more frequent deployments and faster lead times had significantly better outcomes. The presenters advocated for destroying silos through automation across the entire software development pipeline. They recommended transitioning from functional to product teams and packaging everything together to deploy. Metrics for success including achieving business goals and optimizing the software delivery value stream were also covered.
The world of IT is shifting rapidly towards DevOps with analysts predicting the majority of companies will adopt DevOps practices in the next few years. In fact, in a recent study on DevOps by International Data Corp. (IDC), they believe that DevOps will be adopted (in either practice or discipline) by 80% of Global 1000 organizations by 2019!
Forming a DevOps team seems like a natural step, but the idea of creating a dedicated DevOps team has ignited anger in the community. Why? What's the concern? Is a DevOps team evil? Completely necessary? A necessary Evil?
Join IBM UrbanCode's Eric Minick to learn the pitfalls of creating bad DevOps teams, and successful approaches of good ones. Along the way, we’ll explore other heresies such as using tools to change culture.
DevOps is a blend of information technology and software development operations that assists businesses in creating and delivering apps quickly. DevOps brings operations and development teams together; therefore, there will be very few errors and redundancies in the software development process.
Next Generation IT Delivery - What it means to deliver atthe speed of the Dig...Mirco Hering
We live in the Digital Age and IT delivery needs to get faster and faster...I presented this point of view at the Accenture Test Symposium in Australia in 2015.
1) The document discusses Accenture's DevOps capability group and their focus on DevOps transformations with clients. It describes how the group is embedded in wider client delivery and support within Accenture.
2) The group aims to scale DevOps adoption by starting small with continuous delivery pipelines and then expanding automation and sharing successes enterprise-wide.
3) The group provides services like training, consultancy, tools, and platforms to help clients replicate successes and improve DevOps capabilities over time.
DevOps & Cloud - The Essentials for Digital TransformationCloudJourneee
Learn how DevOps and Cloud can help in Digital Transformation. The deck covers:
Digital Transformation - The Current Organizational Scenario
Understanding the DevOps – Cloud Relationship
Building & Managing Cloud Applications with DevOps
Use Cases
Benefits of Moving to Cloud with DevOps
Evolution of the DevOps Quality Management OfficeCapgemini
This document discusses the evolution of the DevOps Quality Management Office (QMO). It outlines the vision of continuous business-driven testing to reduce the time between development and operations. Key aspects of the DevOps-driven testing approach include continuous integration and delivery, lean techniques, standardization, test optimization, and establishing a hybrid test organization. The document also compares traditional vs DevOps testing approaches and provides examples of DevOps testing success levers. It proposes that the QMO can advise on developing a DevOps strategy and roadmap to improve throughput, availability, and time to market.
This document discusses how DevOps can help companies adapt to today's fast-paced technology environment by breaking down silos between development and operations teams. It argues that DevOps allows for faster software releases, continuous delivery, and greater agility while still maintaining quality and control. The document outlines five benefits of adopting DevOps and how it impacts different roles within an organization. It also provides an overview of the typical phases involved in a DevOps transformation project.
Scaling DevOps - delivering on the promise of business velocity and qualityXebiaLabs
This document summarizes a webinar presented by Robert Stroud and Tim Buntel on scaling DevOps practices. The webinar discussed how only 23% of enterprises deploy code monthly or faster, highlighting a need to improve release velocity. It also showed that organizations with more frequent deployments and faster lead times had significantly better outcomes. The presenters advocated for destroying silos through automation across the entire software development pipeline. They recommended transitioning from functional to product teams and packaging everything together to deploy. Metrics for success including achieving business goals and optimizing the software delivery value stream were also covered.
The world of IT is shifting rapidly towards DevOps with analysts predicting the majority of companies will adopt DevOps practices in the next few years. In fact, in a recent study on DevOps by International Data Corp. (IDC), they believe that DevOps will be adopted (in either practice or discipline) by 80% of Global 1000 organizations by 2019!
Forming a DevOps team seems like a natural step, but the idea of creating a dedicated DevOps team has ignited anger in the community. Why? What's the concern? Is a DevOps team evil? Completely necessary? A necessary Evil?
Join IBM UrbanCode's Eric Minick to learn the pitfalls of creating bad DevOps teams, and successful approaches of good ones. Along the way, we’ll explore other heresies such as using tools to change culture.
DevOps is a blend of information technology and software development operations that assists businesses in creating and delivering apps quickly. DevOps brings operations and development teams together; therefore, there will be very few errors and redundancies in the software development process.
This document provides an overview of IBM's DevOps services offerings, which are delivered using a 1-2-3 approach of assess and plan, adopt, and rollout and scale. The services help clients accelerate product delivery through DevOps practices like continuous integration and delivery. Specific offerings discussed include DevOps assessment and planning, a quick win pilot, consulting services, and ongoing Accelerated Value Program support. Case studies show how these services have helped clients reduce deployment times and increase availability.
Starting and Scaling DevOps in the EnterpriseXebiaLabs
As software continues to take a greater role in defining the success of today’s businesses, adopting DevOps practices has become a top priority for staying competitive. However, in large organizations, lack of alignment on DevOps improvements and inherent organizational waste and inefficiencies can hamper or even halt progress.
But a proven framework for large organizations and their executives to understand and implement DevOps principles in the context of their current development processes exists!
In this webinar you'll hear from Gary Gruver, author of the new book, Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise, to learn more about this approach.
With a track record of transforming software development processes and working with executives in large organizations, Gary, along with your host, Andrew Phillips, XebiaLabs VP of DevOps Strategy, will give you the tools you need to gain organizational alignment and lay the foundation for a successful DevOps implementation.
It’s the same everywhere you turn. Companies are trying to transform their digital experiences and increase customer engagement all while improving customer experience. This is giving rise to a whole new generation of modern applications that are built fast, scale out, are mobile-first and go global on public cloud infrastructure.
Developers building modern applications depend on:
- An evolving set of DevOps needs
- Modern architectural principles
- Pervasive use of open source frameworks and tools
Forrester Analyst, Jeffrey Hammond, and CloudBees DevOps Evangelist, Brian Dawson, discussed how developers are meeting the demand for speed without blowing budgets. They shared the best practices they have seen companies use to take full advantage of open source tools and frameworks.
More and more companies worldwide are excited about DevOps and the many potential benefits of embarking on a DevOps transformation. The challenge many of them are having, however, is figuring out where to begin and how to scale DevOps practices over time. These challenges can be especially daunting in large enterprises. In this webinar we will discuss a maturity model for framing your transformation, then focus on analyzing your deployment pipeline and identify existing inefficiencies in software development and deployment.
This document discusses how CA DevOps solutions can help create high-performing IT organizations. It outlines challenges that DevOps can solve such as improving time-to-market and revenue. CA's strategic approach to DevOps focuses on people, processes, performance, and profit. It promotes collaboration between development and operations teams. CA offers various DevOps solutions to support agile parallel development and agile operations. Adopting DevOps using CA technologies can provide benefits like reducing costs and time to market while increasing revenue and deployments.
This document provides an introduction to DevOps fundamentals and principles. It discusses how DevOps aims to improve collaboration between development and operations teams. It notes that DevOps was being adopted more by development teams initially. It also highlights some of the business costs of bugs and issues in production environments, and how DevOps can help improve efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate business agility.
The Evolution of Application Release AutomationXebiaLabs
The capabilities provided by today’s Application Release Automation (ARA) tools have advanced exponentially in recent years. Despite these advancements, the enterprise demands new requirements that go beyond application change to automate even more of the release process. The evolving definition of ARA now includes areas that were previously left unaddressed, such as the deployment of database changes and the orchestration of the entire release process. In this on-demand webinar, learn how Datical and XebiaLabs are working together to address the changing needs of the enterprise through the evolution of ARA.
5 Leading Challenges Facing PMOs – And How Agile Program Management Changes t...Cprime
Join cPrime Agile Coach, Brian Mulconrey, and Tasktop Business Analyst, Rebecca Dobbin, as they present why leading program and project management officers are learning to love agile program management. You'll leave this session having received easy to implement tips for tackling scope changes, impossible deadlines, poor communication, lack of accountability, and poor risk management.
The document discusses how software deployment timeframes have decreased from annual to hourly and the effects of accelerating deployment cycles on software development practices and teams. Faster deployment requires more automated testing, refactoring, continuous integration, shorter-lived feature branches, less upfront documentation and design, just-in-time usability testing, and removing impediments to faster cycles. Teams adapt through practices like stand-up meetings, kanban, dedicated QA roles, temporary feature branches, and an emphasis on releasing minimum viable products.
DevOps is an acronym for Development and Operations – two most important teams within any organization. For implementing DevOps successfully its important to understand the building blocks that make up this agile methodology.
DevOps - Why 50 deploys per day is essentialMartin Croker
Organizations such as Flickr, Etsy and Amazon are deploying application updates multiple times per day, some even every hour. But why? In this session we will discuss lessons learned by the CD and DevOps leaders, what it takes to accomplish this, how to get started and why enterprises do need to consider a multi-release/day strategy.
Saving the DoD $800M: How Portfolio Management is the Missing Link Between Ag...VMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Saving the DoD $800M: How Portfolio Management is the Missing Link Between Agile and Waterfall
Speakers: Jackie Ho, Staff Product Designer at VMware; Oscar Chacon, Portfolio PM at United States Space Force
This document discusses DevOps from the perspective of Erno Aapa, a DevOps consultant. It outlines some common misunderstandings about DevOps, such as thinking it is a role or team. The document then discusses the history of approaches like Agile, Scrum, and Continuous Integration that influenced DevOps. It explains how DevOps gives companies the capability to experiment and deploy changes rapidly and safely. The benefits of DevOps include faster deployments, improved collaboration between Dev and Ops teams, and the ability to get feedback from customers to continuously improve.
DevOps is a methodology capturing the practices adopted from the very start by the web giants who had a unique opportunity as well as a strong requirement to invent new ways of working due to the very nature of their business: the need to evolve their systems at an unprecedented pace as well as extend them and their business sometimes on a daily basis.
While DevOps makes obviously a critical sense for startups, I believe that the big corporations with large and old-fashioned IT departments are actually the ones that can benefit the most from adopting these principles and practices.
Check here how DevOps provides a solution for your software development and deployment challenges. If you want any help regarding DevOps or DevOps services, then visit https://www.impressico.com/services/offerings/devops-cloud-services/
DevOps concepts, tools, and technologies v1.0Mohamed Taman
DevOps is not a tool or technology; it is an approach or culture that makes things better.
This session describes in detail how DevOps solves different problems of the traditional
application delivery cycle.
It also describes how it can be used to make development and operations teams efficient and effective in order to make time to market faster by improving culture. It also explains key concepts essential for evolving DevOps culture.
In this session, we will cover the following topics:
1- Understanding the DevOps movement
2- The DevOps lifecycle—it's all about “continuous”
3- Continuous integration
4- Configuration management
5- Continuous delivery/continuous deployment
6- Continuous monitoring
7- Continuous feedback
8- Tools and technologies
DevOps is a practical field that focuses on delivering business value as efficiently as possible. DevOps encompasses all the flows from code through testing environments to production environments. It stresses the cooperation between different roles, and how they can work together more closely, as the roots of the word imply—Development and Operations.
This material is about adopting DevOps with Seven domain model. It sharing secrets on how to adopt DevOps. It laying out core considerations for planning, building and executing DevOps.
It about talk about the method to measure readiness, efficiency, return and maturity. Besides, I am also mentioning the process of transformation including new process of continuous release, continuous validation and a well established feedback management mechanism.
Automation is critical for DevOps workflows to achieve velocity, consistency, and scale. Describing infrastructure as code allows automation platforms to provision servers and resources quickly according to policies. This ensures consistency across environments and enables scaling up or down on demand. Automation eliminates manual tasks, standardizes environments, builds release pipelines, and improves collaboration between development and operations for faster delivery.
This document provides an overview of IBM's DevOps services offerings, which are delivered using a 1-2-3 approach of assess and plan, adopt, and rollout and scale. The services help clients accelerate product delivery through DevOps practices like continuous integration and delivery. Specific offerings discussed include DevOps assessment and planning, a quick win pilot, consulting services, and ongoing Accelerated Value Program support. Case studies show how these services have helped clients reduce deployment times and increase availability.
Starting and Scaling DevOps in the EnterpriseXebiaLabs
As software continues to take a greater role in defining the success of today’s businesses, adopting DevOps practices has become a top priority for staying competitive. However, in large organizations, lack of alignment on DevOps improvements and inherent organizational waste and inefficiencies can hamper or even halt progress.
But a proven framework for large organizations and their executives to understand and implement DevOps principles in the context of their current development processes exists!
In this webinar you'll hear from Gary Gruver, author of the new book, Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise, to learn more about this approach.
With a track record of transforming software development processes and working with executives in large organizations, Gary, along with your host, Andrew Phillips, XebiaLabs VP of DevOps Strategy, will give you the tools you need to gain organizational alignment and lay the foundation for a successful DevOps implementation.
It’s the same everywhere you turn. Companies are trying to transform their digital experiences and increase customer engagement all while improving customer experience. This is giving rise to a whole new generation of modern applications that are built fast, scale out, are mobile-first and go global on public cloud infrastructure.
Developers building modern applications depend on:
- An evolving set of DevOps needs
- Modern architectural principles
- Pervasive use of open source frameworks and tools
Forrester Analyst, Jeffrey Hammond, and CloudBees DevOps Evangelist, Brian Dawson, discussed how developers are meeting the demand for speed without blowing budgets. They shared the best practices they have seen companies use to take full advantage of open source tools and frameworks.
More and more companies worldwide are excited about DevOps and the many potential benefits of embarking on a DevOps transformation. The challenge many of them are having, however, is figuring out where to begin and how to scale DevOps practices over time. These challenges can be especially daunting in large enterprises. In this webinar we will discuss a maturity model for framing your transformation, then focus on analyzing your deployment pipeline and identify existing inefficiencies in software development and deployment.
This document discusses how CA DevOps solutions can help create high-performing IT organizations. It outlines challenges that DevOps can solve such as improving time-to-market and revenue. CA's strategic approach to DevOps focuses on people, processes, performance, and profit. It promotes collaboration between development and operations teams. CA offers various DevOps solutions to support agile parallel development and agile operations. Adopting DevOps using CA technologies can provide benefits like reducing costs and time to market while increasing revenue and deployments.
This document provides an introduction to DevOps fundamentals and principles. It discusses how DevOps aims to improve collaboration between development and operations teams. It notes that DevOps was being adopted more by development teams initially. It also highlights some of the business costs of bugs and issues in production environments, and how DevOps can help improve efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate business agility.
The Evolution of Application Release AutomationXebiaLabs
The capabilities provided by today’s Application Release Automation (ARA) tools have advanced exponentially in recent years. Despite these advancements, the enterprise demands new requirements that go beyond application change to automate even more of the release process. The evolving definition of ARA now includes areas that were previously left unaddressed, such as the deployment of database changes and the orchestration of the entire release process. In this on-demand webinar, learn how Datical and XebiaLabs are working together to address the changing needs of the enterprise through the evolution of ARA.
5 Leading Challenges Facing PMOs – And How Agile Program Management Changes t...Cprime
Join cPrime Agile Coach, Brian Mulconrey, and Tasktop Business Analyst, Rebecca Dobbin, as they present why leading program and project management officers are learning to love agile program management. You'll leave this session having received easy to implement tips for tackling scope changes, impossible deadlines, poor communication, lack of accountability, and poor risk management.
The document discusses how software deployment timeframes have decreased from annual to hourly and the effects of accelerating deployment cycles on software development practices and teams. Faster deployment requires more automated testing, refactoring, continuous integration, shorter-lived feature branches, less upfront documentation and design, just-in-time usability testing, and removing impediments to faster cycles. Teams adapt through practices like stand-up meetings, kanban, dedicated QA roles, temporary feature branches, and an emphasis on releasing minimum viable products.
DevOps is an acronym for Development and Operations – two most important teams within any organization. For implementing DevOps successfully its important to understand the building blocks that make up this agile methodology.
DevOps - Why 50 deploys per day is essentialMartin Croker
Organizations such as Flickr, Etsy and Amazon are deploying application updates multiple times per day, some even every hour. But why? In this session we will discuss lessons learned by the CD and DevOps leaders, what it takes to accomplish this, how to get started and why enterprises do need to consider a multi-release/day strategy.
Saving the DoD $800M: How Portfolio Management is the Missing Link Between Ag...VMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Saving the DoD $800M: How Portfolio Management is the Missing Link Between Agile and Waterfall
Speakers: Jackie Ho, Staff Product Designer at VMware; Oscar Chacon, Portfolio PM at United States Space Force
This document discusses DevOps from the perspective of Erno Aapa, a DevOps consultant. It outlines some common misunderstandings about DevOps, such as thinking it is a role or team. The document then discusses the history of approaches like Agile, Scrum, and Continuous Integration that influenced DevOps. It explains how DevOps gives companies the capability to experiment and deploy changes rapidly and safely. The benefits of DevOps include faster deployments, improved collaboration between Dev and Ops teams, and the ability to get feedback from customers to continuously improve.
DevOps is a methodology capturing the practices adopted from the very start by the web giants who had a unique opportunity as well as a strong requirement to invent new ways of working due to the very nature of their business: the need to evolve their systems at an unprecedented pace as well as extend them and their business sometimes on a daily basis.
While DevOps makes obviously a critical sense for startups, I believe that the big corporations with large and old-fashioned IT departments are actually the ones that can benefit the most from adopting these principles and practices.
Check here how DevOps provides a solution for your software development and deployment challenges. If you want any help regarding DevOps or DevOps services, then visit https://www.impressico.com/services/offerings/devops-cloud-services/
DevOps concepts, tools, and technologies v1.0Mohamed Taman
DevOps is not a tool or technology; it is an approach or culture that makes things better.
This session describes in detail how DevOps solves different problems of the traditional
application delivery cycle.
It also describes how it can be used to make development and operations teams efficient and effective in order to make time to market faster by improving culture. It also explains key concepts essential for evolving DevOps culture.
In this session, we will cover the following topics:
1- Understanding the DevOps movement
2- The DevOps lifecycle—it's all about “continuous”
3- Continuous integration
4- Configuration management
5- Continuous delivery/continuous deployment
6- Continuous monitoring
7- Continuous feedback
8- Tools and technologies
DevOps is a practical field that focuses on delivering business value as efficiently as possible. DevOps encompasses all the flows from code through testing environments to production environments. It stresses the cooperation between different roles, and how they can work together more closely, as the roots of the word imply—Development and Operations.
This material is about adopting DevOps with Seven domain model. It sharing secrets on how to adopt DevOps. It laying out core considerations for planning, building and executing DevOps.
It about talk about the method to measure readiness, efficiency, return and maturity. Besides, I am also mentioning the process of transformation including new process of continuous release, continuous validation and a well established feedback management mechanism.
Automation is critical for DevOps workflows to achieve velocity, consistency, and scale. Describing infrastructure as code allows automation platforms to provision servers and resources quickly according to policies. This ensures consistency across environments and enables scaling up or down on demand. Automation eliminates manual tasks, standardizes environments, builds release pipelines, and improves collaboration between development and operations for faster delivery.
This document discusses how Accenture's DevOps services can help organizations deliver applications at the pace of business. DevOps uses automation techniques to increase collaboration between development and operations teams, enabling faster and more frequent software deployments. Accenture's DevOps services include assessment and strategy, implementation of continuous integration and delivery practices, and organizational change management. These services help organizations increase speed to market, reduce defects, and improve productivity and throughput.
As cloud computing becomes of strategic importance in the enterprise, part of the solution is no longer on-premise but in the cloud, adding a layer of complexity. Edwin Chan demystifies performance testing of cloud systems and applications by addressing the following key questions: Is performance testing of cloud systems fundamentally different from testing on-premises applications? What are the best practices for performance testing of both cloud and on-premises systems? Performance testing of cloud systems is essentially the same as that of its on-premises counterpart with the exception of the key consideration of network latency. After clearing common misconceptions, Edwin shares the hot topic best practices—adopting an agile/lean methodology, conducting early performance testing, and automating the injection of test data. Discuss the challenges the testing team faces in these days of disruptive and fast-paced technology changes. Take back and apply some of the best practices that fit your organization’s need.
Keith Zalaznik from Deloitte Consulting shows how arming IT with the tools to automate and integrate their core disciplines, real-time DevOps has the opportunity to profoundly impact the IT shop—accelerating IT delivery, improving quality and better aligning IT with the business.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
Tech Mahindra and CollabNet have worked together on a number of mission-critical projects, and over the course of their partnership have developed unique expertise in lifecycle, development-to-production metrics. Gain an understanding not only of what metrics are important, but also practical approaches to building reports and dashboards that deliver a single-pane view of all your delivery pipelines across the enterprise.
Participants will learn:
KPI’s of end-to-end dashboard driven development and delivery
Best practices for metrics in Agile / DevOps environments
Role of technology frameworks for integrated planning and reporting
Many entrepreneurs consider DevOps solutions useful for startups and technology companies. The reason behind this notion is the chief objective of DevOps implementation, which is to help companies build their culture or establish cloud-native roots. However, the reality is completely different! Best practices in DevOps are beneficial for all enterprises irrespective of their sizes.
Read the full article - https://www.silvertouch.com/blog/enterprise-devops-importance-and-key-benefits-you-need-to-know/
DevOps is a software development method that emphasizes collaboration between development and IT operations teams. It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. The document discusses who should adopt DevOps practices such as developers, operations staff, and leadership. It also outlines the key components of DevOps including automated code building, testing, packaging, and monitoring. Adopting DevOps can help break down barriers between teams, encourage innovation, and provide measurable business benefits through integrated IT processes.
Join Lance Knight, SVP and GM of ConnectALL, at his session to understand the changing forces that are creating the urgency for value delivery and greater efficiencies between development and operations. Lance will review some winning and losing DevOps strategies we gathered when surveying our customers around the world
Scaling DevOps from Ground Zero to Enterprisematthewabq
We will provide a high level introduction to DevOps at the enterprise level and how an enterprise can implement a useful and effective DevOps capability to support its software development efforts. We will cover the definition of DevOps, the DevOps Space, how an enterprise should get started with DevOps, Zivra’s “tried and true” DevOps framework, some of the strategic initiatives that will advance your DevOps capabilities, and more.
DevOps is a methodology that unites software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) into a single continuous process focused on improving quality and speed of delivering new apps. It eliminates finger-pointing between Dev and Ops by emphasizing collaboration through principles like culture, measurement, automation and sharing. Adopting DevOps leads to faster time to market, increased quality, and greater organizational effectiveness.
DevOps is a methodology that unites software development and IT operations into a single continuous process focused on improving quality and speed of delivering new applications. It eliminates finger pointing between development and operations teams and promotes collaboration through principles like culture, measurement, automation and sharing. Adopting DevOps can provide benefits like faster time to market, increased quality, and increased organizational effectiveness.
Securely Scaling Agile Software Delivery: Traceability, Visibility and Colla...Kevin Hancock
The document discusses how CollabNet's TeamForge platform can help organizations scale agile practices across teams. It provides an overview of Kevin Hancock, a senior director at CollabNet, and how agile practices require more collaboration as they are implemented across larger organizations and teams. The document then summarizes CollabNet's blueprint for implementing agile at scale through their TeamForge platform, which provides tools for code management, tracking, reporting and collaboration to support distributed agile teams.
This document discusses the interlinking of Cloud and DevOps. It begins with an overview of Newt Global, a leader in DevOps transformations and cloud enablement. It then introduces the speaker, Madhavan Srinivasan, Managing Director of Products and Solution Sales at Newt Global. The presentation agenda is then outlined, covering topics like cloud adoption maturity, DevOps adoption maturity, where cloud and DevOps intersect, and the business value from their synergies. Challenges of cloud adoption are presented, along with a model for tracking cloud adoption maturity levels. Similarly, DevOps adoption models and maturity levels at enterprises are discussed. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the business values that can be realized from DevOps and the
Here are some role of DevOps that are benefits for IT consulting. To get DevOps consulting services, visit https://www.impressico.com/services/offerings/devops-cloud-services/
This document discusses moving HR functions to the cloud. It identifies four main challenges in doing so: adopting new ways of thinking and working, managing organizational changes and employee support, the speed of deployment, and establishing new roles. It also notes common failures like not properly preparing for and managing change, validating data, understanding cloud specifics, and gaining buy-in. Finally, it highlights benefits like quick deployment, reduced costs, flexibility, and easy updates that organizations can realize when moving HR to the cloud.
Java deployments in an enterprise environment whitepaper - xebialabsXebiaLabs
This whitepaper discusses the importance of proper deployment processes for Java applications in enterprise environments. It outlines eight common pitfalls that can undermine reliable deployment processes, such as infrastructure designs that do not consider deployment, development environments that differ from production, and the belief that full automation is not possible. To overcome these pitfalls, the whitepaper recommends adopting deployment automation solutions that provide comprehensive middleware support, best practice deployment scenarios, extensibility, scalability, cross-platform support, security, open APIs, and reporting capabilities. The whitepaper uses Air France KLM as a case study to show how deployment challenges can impact businesses. It then describes Deployit, a deployment automation product from XebiaLabs, as an example
[Business Strategy] DevOps Implementation Failure. Save It Before You Fail It!Ajeet Singh
The document discusses implementation of DevOps and reasons for failure. It notes that while DevOps aims to break down silos between development and operations, many organizations fail due to misplaced efforts where the focus shifts from early adoption areas. Other reasons include local optimization where practices are not compatible across different environments. It provides recommendations for a successful DevOps roadmap including assessing goals, encouraging collaboration, setting fast feedback loops, focusing on customers, implementing automation, and continuous delivery.
Why DevOps is Key to Digital Transformation Success.pdfEnterprise Insider
DevOps is becoming the new operating model for IT in many enterprise undergoing digital transformations. In order to implement DevOps, most organizations will need to transform their processes, technologies and their existing workforce.
Enterprise DevOps: Crossing the Great Divide with DevOps TrainingITpreneurs
This session (and slide deck) was specifically created for training and consulting companies interested in offering DevOps training courses. Jayne Groll, co-founder of ITSM Academy and an expert on ITSM, Agile, Scrum DevOps, leading the session.
This deck covers:
1. A brief overview of DevOps – its history, concepts and relationship to other frameworks such as Agile and ITSM
2. The increasing interest in DevOps at the enterprise level
3. The value of adding DevOps training to your portfolio
-Small / Medium Size Training Companies
-Large Training Companies
-Consulting Companies
4. Scenario’s for Successfully Going to Market with DevOps
5. How You Can Get Started
In this session we will explore how Cloud Native technologies require us to re-think the way businesses create and scale modern digital solutions. We will explore the trends that are driving the adoption of these technologies and the key use cases for their application. Most importantly, we will uncover the business problems that these technologies are most effective at solving. While many tools exist for Containers, Microservices Architecture, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery processes involved in Cloud Native development, we aim to provide best practices and guidance on how to approach these business problems when solutioning using the Microsoft Azure platform.
American Marketing Association, Legendary Leadership Series: Think like a sof...Ashish Patel
Software has been eating the world for more than a decade.
And it has been transforming new business models through platforms and ecosystems that leverage data
It’s important to think deeply about what your company does today, what is its mission?
• Are you a car maker? Are you a service provider of financial services?
• Now I challenge you to re-think that.
o If you are a car maker today; what are the possibilities if you thought of yourself as a software company that happens to make cars?
o Or a software company that happens to offer financial services?
We will explore how to Think like a Software Company on October 16th, see you there!
Join Tony Chapman and I as we host the legendary leadership series
Digital Transformation: Embracing a Growth MindsetAshish Patel
Transformation is driving innovation in mindset, business processes and models along with the associated technology to support initiatives. The typical "we've always done it this way“ approach simply no longer cuts it in the increasingly competitive digital age. The best run companies are aware of this and leverage old and new technology to create innovative products and services, gain competitive advantage and enhance customer interaction, all while ultimately improving the bottom line. However, with a reported 80% of IT budgets being spent to maintain existing legacy systems - leaving little to no money for new technologies - it leaves IT and Line of Business executives with a conundrum of introducing new systems without disrupting existing, trusted legacies... so how do we make a digital transformation successful? Come learn from one in flight.
Can your business survive the next disaster?Ashish Patel
Did you know that 40% of businesses do not re-open after a disaster? Or that it could cost an organization up to $600,000 per hour during a disaster scenario? In today’s “always on” world, businesses must continue to operate no matter what, which means that critical IT infrastructure must be available 24/7/365. In this session we will learn more about a holistic approach towards business continuity & IT resiliency and how organizations can achieve high levels of availability. We will also go over each stage of the business continuity lifecycle and talk about the importance of managed services, key processes and technologies that must be considered for a comprehensive Business Continuity & Resiliency plan.
Where in the world is your Corporate data?Ashish Patel
Your employees – and your company data – are on the go every day. As a result, your employees are relying on the use of 3rd party online services without IT approval – that is Shadow IT in your own organization. That’s some risky business. Where in the world is your Corporate Data?
With TeraGo Cloud Drive we are giving you back control of your most valuable asset, your data.
In this webinar you will learn about:
How Shadow IT is picking up velocity due to the accessibility and ease of cloud applications
Consequences of weak corporate security mechanisms
How to give your IT department control of your data and its’ security
IBM Cloud OpenStack Services provides a managed private cloud built on OpenStack that offers flexibility, scalability, and security. Key benefits include predictable pricing with monthly subscriptions to scale resources up or down, as well as dedicated infrastructure to avoid noisy neighbors. IBM manages the OpenStack management systems, network gateways, compute, and storage hardware to deliver a turnkey private cloud solution.
IBM Corporate Services Corps - Experience in MalaysiaAshish Patel
The document summarizes IBM's Corporate Service Corps program, which sends IBM employees to work on projects in developing countries similar to the Peace Corps. It describes a team of IBMers who worked in Malaysia on projects with two organizations: the Spastic Children's Association of Johor and the Handicapped and Mentally Disabled Children's Association Johor. The team helped develop strategies for improving computer education and marketing/fundraising capabilities at the respective organizations over the course of 4 weeks.
This document discusses security challenges and solutions related to cloud computing. It begins by outlining common business and IT challenges, then defines cloud computing and reviews security concerns such as data privacy, reliability, and loss of control. The document proposes that identity and access management, data security, and regulatory compliance are top security risks for cloud computing. It presents IBM solutions for privileged user access control, identity federation, and application isolation that aim to address these risks.
Application Response Measurement (ARM) based Monitoring for EclipseAshish Patel
This document discusses ARM-based performance monitoring for the Eclipse platform. It provides an overview of Eclipse and the Test and Performance Tools Project (TPTP). It describes how Application Response Measurement (ARM) is used to measure transaction response times across distributed systems. The architecture inserts ARM instrumentation into applications using bytecode instrumentation or aspects. A demonstration is provided and future enhancements are discussed, such as supporting more application types and platforms. Instructions for getting started with the ARM monitoring capabilities in Eclipse are also included.
IBM Performance Optimizaiton Toolkit for Rational Performance TesterAshish Patel
The document summarizes an IBM conference session about the IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit (IPOT) for identifying performance problems. IPOT integrates with IBM Rational tools to monitor applications during development, testing and production. It collects resource and transaction data to help correlate problems and determine their root cause. The session agenda included an IPOT overview, examples of using it to analyze issues, and a demo.
IBM Performance Optimizaiton Toolkit for Rational Application DeveloperAshish Patel
This document summarizes an IBM conference session about the IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit (IPOT) for optimizing application performance. IPOT allows developers, testers and support teams to monitor applications in real-time, integrate performance data with development tools, and help determine the root cause of performance issues. The session agenda included an IPOT overview, examples of profiling applications and monitoring resources and logs, and a demo.
Using and Extending the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) fo...Ashish Patel
The document discusses using the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) for data collection in self-healing systems. TPTP provides a framework and tools for collecting log and trace data from different systems through common interfaces. It defines common data models and agents that can collect log, trace, and statistical data. The collected data is normalized and can then be analyzed to help identify problems and enable self-healing capabilities through correlation of events.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
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Different definitions of DevOps as it relates to tools and technology, or people and process
Overall goal of DevOps: Continuous Improvement or Respond to business changes more rapidly
People
A group of individuals who execute Development and Operations activities in unison, rather than in disparate silos.
Process
Apply agile techniques to operations and getting development and operations to actually work together.
Tools
Continuous Integration > Continuous Delivery > Continuous Deployment
DevOps philosophies and institute continuous delivery capabilities are able to respond to business changes more rapidly and are more profitable than businesses that are hindered in these areas. DevOps typically increases the level of transparency between IT and the business giving them greater input into direction and providing them a wider perspective for how what is below the water line today impacts the very attributes the business cares about.
Continuous Integration is the practice of merging development work with a Master/Trunk/Mainline branch constantly so that you can test changes, and test that changes work with other changes. The idea here is to test your code as often as possible to catch issues early. Most of the work is done by automated tests, and this technique requires a unit test framework. Typically there is a build server performing these tests, so developers can continue working while tests are being performed.
Continuous Delivery is the continual delivery of code to an environment once the developer feels the code is ready to ship. This could be UAT or Staging or could be Production. But the idea is you are delivering code to a user base, whether it be QA or customers for continual review and inspection. This is similar to Continuous Integration, but it can feed business logic tests. Unit tests cannot catch all business logic, particularly design issues, so this stage or process can be used for these needs. You may also be delivering code for Code Review. Code may be batched for release or not after the UAT or QA is done. The basis of Continuous Delivery is small batches of work continually fed to the next step will be consumed more easily and find more issues early on. This system is easier for the developer because issues are presented to the developer before the task has left their memory.
Continuous Deployment is the deployment or release of code to Production as soon as it is ready. There is no large batching in Staging nor long UAT process that is directly before Production. Any testing is done prior to merging to the Mainline branch and is performed on Production-like environments, see Integration blog article for more information. The Production branch is always stable and ready to be deployed by an automated process. The automated process is key because it should be able to be performed by anyone in a matter of minutes (preferably by the press of a button). After a deploy, logs must be inspected to determine if your key metrics are affected, positively or negatively. Some of these metrics may include revenue, user sign-up, response time or traffic, preferably these metrics are graphed for easy consumption. Continuous Deployment requires Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery - otherwise, you are just cowboy coding and you will get errors in the release.
Continuous Deployment relies on small changes which are constantly tested and that are deployed and released to Production immediately upon verification. The ownership of the code from development to release must be controlled by the developer and must be free flowing. The automation of steps allows this process to be implemented and executed without cumbersome workflows.
Traditionally, the goal of Development is to deliver features and of Operations is to ensure stability of those features. While Development is measured on the velocity of delivery, Operations is measured on service levels. Both of these groups have competing interests as Development can quickly deliver new function claiming they are meeting requirements and customer needs, but Operations often receives the brunt of complaints when stability is compromised – eg. an outage in service
Dev - meeting customer needs
Ops - receives the brunt of complaints when stability is compromised
From an organizational view, the performances of these teams are often measured on an individual basis, which results in individuals competing to establish their personal brand equity in the organization. Often this results in individuals making decisions that maximize their own personal success to grow their brand and reputation, rather than in benefit of the joint mission between Development and Operations. Furthermore, both of these groups may report into separate departments (especially in an Enterprise), making the problem only worse as each line of business would have its own and disparate business objectives.
Separate departments where each line of business has its own objectives
Measured on an individual contributor performance
Competition to establish their personal brand equity in the organization
Decisions may be made that maximize their own personal success over the joint mission
Upper management is so focused on growing the business that mention of DevOps is often glazed over because its business value is not well understood or communicated. What is communicated to upper mgmt comes from middle management who were sold on the technology and tools aspects of devops, but failed in translating that to how it helps the business – in terms of acquiring new customers, upselling to the existing customer base, expanding to new markets or geographies, or even improving the bottom line. As a result, middle management doesn’t champion the idea of DevOps much further because they don’t want to “that person” who isn’t aligned with upper management or on the next resource action list. This has been called the “middle management permafost” (insert reference).
The developers understand it and the senior managers understand it - largely because they have read The Phoenix Project - but the middle managers see it and think, "I don't know how I am going to add value to it so I am going to fight it because if I don't I think I am going to wind up on the street".
One way to do it is to understand that agile is a team sport. Most IT departments are not a team, they are collections of individuals – DevOps is the same.
Example: reducing batch sizes reduces operational risk
How does DevOps support the business – its not about technology or tools driving DevOps
A business thrives by serving the customer.
In order to serve customers, a business must create a compelling experience.
Once a customer is acquired, the business must turn this customer into a high-value one.
Customers tend to exhibit loyalty to a brand if their experience with the business and its’ products are enhanced. Otherwise, the business risks losing the customer to competitor.
To create a higher value customer
new experiences must be developed, and
existing experiences must operate with finesse.
If those who develop experiences are not aligned with those operating those experiences, a customers experience is in danger.
Difficult to create a business case to justify augmenting with DevOps on Systems of Records (70% of IT budgets are spent here maintaining these systems)
Enterprises have mission critical systems that are Systems of Records, whereas, startups don’t have a legacy environments making it easier to build greenfield environments using DevOps from day one
Enterprises are formed with teams with functional (“silo”) responsibility, and not a singular focus (eg. Netflix)
Change control & transparency of that overall process and its owners
Many enterprises are mult-product/service firm, which constantly aim for business justification to allocate the correct investments in the correct lines of business to maximize return
Comply with existing corporate standards and security policies – eg change management systems, version control etc. Do not over confuse DevOps with an IT transformation where you might change policies and systems. – this also helps to preserve existing interfaces between silos
Support with stability of a Partner network
Business value – reach new markets or customers with new services, or upsell existing customers with new experiences
New delivery models (API services, mobile apps, continuous delivery)
New delivery platforms (cloud, and continuous integration)
New business models (open source, recurring subscription, on-demand)
Do not formulate a roadmap with a number of projects along a timeline to enable DevOps.
Pick projects where the business understands that they have to work with IT differently to get what they need. DevOps will be used in pockets and requires time for the mindset of the business to change.
Step 0
Ensure you have the correct skills in place not only to execute but also to demonstrate the desired team culture.
Step 1
Start with a multi-tenant IaaS to validate a project passes necessary compliance and security aspects for dev/test environments. Prepare standardized images for middleware and orchestrate provisioning in collaboration with operations. Implement Continuous Testing and Continuous Deployment to track quality to business expectations.
Step 2
Select an IaaS service provider with proven Enterprise expertise to run workloads in production. Ensure that OpenStack or other open technologies are part of the providers’ roadmap or portfolio to enable portability and reusability. Ensure you have a design for standardizing databases, middleware, application servers, and deployment architecture across the dev/test and production environments.
Step 3
Understand how PaaS helps accelerate development and scaling of your applications architecture. Look to consuming microservices to create integrated customer experiences, technology is bite size consumable, and independent from disparate sources.
From an organizational view, the performances of these teams are often measured on an individual basis, which results in individuals competing to establish their personal brand equity in the organization. Often this results in individuals making decisions that maximize their own personal success to grow their brand and reputation, rather than in benefit of the joint mission between Development and Operations. Furthermore, both of these groups may report into separate departments (especially in an Enterprise), making the problem only worse as each line of business would have its own and disparate business objectives.