This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. We recently contributed to the ‘DevOps Perspectives 3’ report from CA: Microservices and data consistency. Here is an extract (you can download the full report from CA).
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Bridge the Business-DevOps gap with agile practices
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Some organisations are attempting to adopt DevOps without really understanding or adopting agile practices for software product development, and so are missing out on significant opportunities for improved innovation, delivery, and operation of their software systems. This gap between DevOps and ‘product’ orContinue reading “Bridge the Business-DevOps gap with agile practices”
Continuous Delivery: Tools, Collaboration, and Conway’s Law – slides from QCon London
We were asked to speak in the DevOps & Continuous Delivery track at QCon London this year, and on 5th March our co-founder Matthew Skelton gave a talk on ‘Continuous Delivery: Tools, Collaboration, and Conway’s Law‘. Here are the slides and some photos from the talk:
New DevOps adoption study from Rackspace
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;
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”
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