Data-driven DevOps, three key technologies for three universal operator goals

Pablo Manuel Garcia Corzo·17 November 2017·Delivery

...There are three basic universal goals any telecoms organisation pursues: save costs, make their products more robust and shorten their time to market. It’s as simple as it sounds. Everyone wants to produce cheaper, better and faster than the competitors do. Read More...

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Which metrics assist in DevOps proving its ROI? (With assistance from academia). Part Four.

David Linwood·3 July 2017·Delivery

...In Part Two, the most cited Return on Investment ("ROI") attributes listed by DevOps Commentators were gathered together to create a list of the most popular metrics by which to measure DevOps success. The research also identified groups of metrics which could be more popular at different levels of the organisation. These "lenses" were CEO level, CIO level and Manager/Team (see Part Two for details). Read More...

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Python and Object Oriented Configuration Management: How to succeed in the adoption of DevOps paradigm

Pablo Manuel Garcia Corzo·1 May 2017·Delivery

...The DevOps paradigm is really cool. Everyone wants to deploy their environments with Puppet on top of OpenStack. It brings reproducibility and scalability at a tremendous speed. This is simply awesome and undoubtedly the way to go forward. Almost nobody though will discuss the benefits of adopting a standard DevOps paradigm, which implies a major shift in mindset for most companies, especially Telcos, who have a high moment of inertia. In this article we will describe a success story based on our experience with customers. Read More...

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Which metrics assist in DevOps proving its ROI? Part Three.

David Linwood·27 February 2017·Delivery

...Having discussed the challenges of IT success measurement in Part One and identified the success metrics recommended by DevOps commentators in Part Two, this instalment seeks to add academic “colour” to the picture by aligning the DevOps metrics with known academic models.  Read More...

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Which metrics assist in DevOps proving its ROI? Part Two.

David Linwood·15 February 2017·Delivery

...Part One introduced the research work as well as briefly describing the concept of DevOps. It hinted at some of the challenges that would be faced by any organisation in proving Return On Investment (ROI). In this article we look at the KSFs recommended by the DevOps commentators. Read More...

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Which metrics assist in DevOps proving its ROI? Part One.

David Linwood·15 February 2017·Delivery

...Having completed a (98 page) MSc dissertation on DevOps and Return On Investment (ROI), the intention was always to share my work with the IT community for common benefit. However one clear message I heard during the research, was that noble (but lengthy) academic tomes were not the way to communicate with the busy IT people! So here we have a series of four “bite-sized” articles for your consumption. Read More...

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Implementing DevOps

Simon Ratcliffe·8 August 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...One of the biggest issues with DevOps is achieving a clear definition. After all, without a clear definition how can we possibly attain the status of a ‘DevOps Shop’. The crucial aspect of DevOps, and one that is missed by so many people, is that it is not an objective, but rather it is a state of organisational mind. Throughout this series of blogs, we have constantly referred to DevOps as a philosophy and, as with any philosophy, DevOps is simply a set of guiding principles which, if adopted, become the philosophy of the organisation over time. Read More...

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Are DevOps and ITIL Mutually Exclusive?

Simon Ratcliffe·31 July 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...One of the most common objections to the adoption of an agile infrastructure is the fact that the organisation has invested significant time and money in adopting ITIL, and this would have to be abandoned. For example, a DevOps philosophy uses change as a primary driver, whereas ITIL is often viewed as regarding change as, at best, a necessary evil.  There is too often a position where DevOps and ITIL are facing firmly in opposite directions, each believing that their approach is the only effective one. Read More...

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What is DevOps?

Simon Ratcliffe·31 July 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...In our previous article, we examined the crisis that is now emerging within traditional IT and began to examine how DevOps could provide some of the solutions needed to address the crisis. But what exactly is DevOps and how can adopting some or all of these philosophies help IT departments avoid becoming irrelevant in the digital World? Read More...

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Learning and Development: A story of fragmentation and the need for personalised learning pathways.

Lucy Goudie·24 October 2023·People & Change

...Digital Transformation is often about alignment and consolidation of technical solutions and capabilities within the enterprise. We sometimes call this fragmentation, a term which is closely related to silos, pockets of excellence and cottage industries. Groups trying to adapt to changing demands by any means. The fragmentation of tech and… Read More...

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Bridging the trust gap between leadership and engineering

Jim Wilt·1 May 2023·Delivery

...In 2016, Forbes assessed the risk of failure in digital transformation to be 84%. Today, Harvard Business Review indicates that the rate of digital transformations failing to meet their original objectives averages at 87.5%. Taking into account margins of error, we are essentially stagnant in our ability to improve. Five… Read More...

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Micro-Experiments and Experiment Driven Development

Jim Wilt·30 March 2023·Strategy & Innovation

...Involving engineering teams across the value stream in the discovery and adoption of new technologies promotes advancement of new ways of working and accelerates innovation by leveraging discoveries. What is a Micro-Experiment? “Experiment-Driven Development (EDD) is a scientific, fact-based approach to software development using agile principles.” – Understanding… Read More...

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