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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;
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.
Continue reading “Joining up Agile and ITIL for DevOps success”
Skelton Thatcher Consulting has launched a series of workshops and seminars – Effective DevOps – for people within organisations beginning to adopt DevOps as a practice.Continue reading “Skelton Thatcher Consulting launches ‘Effective DevOps’ series of seminar based workshops”
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 be interesting in the context of our customers, particularly the new NE-ONE network emulator from iTrinegy.
Continue reading “IPExpo 2014 – a view from the exhibition floor”
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 the interview on YouTube:
Continue reading “Video: the future of DevOps – teams, outsourcing, responsibilities”
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 DevOps and Continuous Delivery require new ways of assessing tools and technologies in order to avoid creating new silos. We share our recent experience of helping many different organisations to evaluate and select tools to facilitate DevOps; the recommendations may surprise you.
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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 of Deming, an approach also central to DevOps. In this webinar we’ll explore how – if implemented appropriately – ITIL and Agile can complement each other for a DevOps approach to iterative evolution of successful software systems.
Continue reading “Webinar: Joining up Agile and ITIL for DevOps success”
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:
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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, and some lively counter questions supplied by the mediator Paul Miller. We’ve collated some of the points, and amalgamated in some thinking around the subject below.
Continue reading “DevOps Breakfast with Rackspace – expanding on ‘What is 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 on The Problem with Defining DevOps which is worth reading (including comments), and Steve Thair of the DevOpsGuys followed up with a very useful post about the need to adopt a different cognitive frame when thinking about DevOps.
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