Rackspace recently released a new study on DevOps Adoption conducted by an independent firm and spanning more than 700 IT decision makers. The report highlights some interesting differences in scale and focus of DevOps adoption between organisations in the UK, US and Australia. Rackspace interviewed Skelton Thatcher Consulting in the creation of the study;
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Joining up Agile and ITIL for DevOps success
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. We recently gave a webinar in which we outlined how Agile and ITIL® can be used in a complementary way to help DevOps practices. Here is the video for the webinar; a summary of the talk is below, along with the slides.
Skelton Thatcher Consulting launches ‘Effective DevOps’ series of seminar based workshops
Skelton Thatcher Consulting has launched a series of workshops and seminars – Effective DevOps – for people within organisations beginning to adopt DevOps as a practice.
IPExpo 2014 – a view from the exhibition floor
This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. This year, the annual IP EXPO Europe event combined with Data Centre EXPO and Cyber Security EXPO. We attended with an interest in checking out some of the keynotes, and to take a look at a couple of products which might beContinue reading “IPExpo 2014 – a view from the exhibition floor”
Video: the future of DevOps – teams, outsourcing, responsibilities
As part of the Rackspace DevOpsBreakfast event in August 2014, we discussed the future of teams, responsibilities, and outsourcing in a DevOps context; this was in response to a question from Sean Ferigan (@ferigan): How do you see DevOps evolving over, say, the next few years? Are there any particular trends emerging? Here is theContinue reading “Video: the future of DevOps – teams, outsourcing, responsibilities”
How to choose tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. With an ever-increasing array of tools and technologies claiming to ‘enable DevOps’, how do we know which tools to try or to choose? In-house, open source, or commercial? Ruby or shell? Dedicated or plugins? It transpires that highly collaborative practices such as DevOpsContinue reading “How to choose tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery”
Webinar: Joining up Agile and ITIL for DevOps success
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM BST To many people ITIL seems like the antithesis of Agile, with process-heavy, manual checks and approval gates a blocker to rapid delivery. However, at its core ITIL recommends iterative and continual improvement of software services based on the ‘Plan, Do, Check, Act’ (PDCA) cycle ofContinue reading “Webinar: Joining up Agile and ITIL for DevOps success”
‘Five DevOps Pitfalls’ – featured in Computer Weekly
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. We were featured in a Computer Weekly article ‘Five pitfalls to avoid when doing DevOps‘, as part of the Rackspace DevOpsBreakfast panel discussion on 19th August. The five pitfalls are: Seeing DevOps purely as an automation activity Having a weak case for doing DevOps NotContinue reading “‘Five DevOps Pitfalls’ – featured in Computer Weekly”
DevOps Breakfast with Rackspace – expanding on ‘What is DevOps?’
This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Today we attended the Rackspace-hosted #DevOpsBreakfast briefing in London, with my colleague Matthew Skelton taking an active seat on the panel, to debate the ‘what, why, and how’ of DevOps. The discussion was wide-ranging, with plenty of participation from the audience,Continue reading “DevOps Breakfast with Rackspace – expanding on ‘What is DevOps?’”
A useful working definition of DevOps
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. There has been a spate of articles published recently – triggered by discussions at the ‘2nd DevOps State of the Union’ event – that have identified an apparent need to agree on a definition of DevOps. The folks at ScriptRock wrote a typically excellent piece onContinue reading “A useful working definition of DevOps”
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