#Insanity Ep1: Insanity Max 30 (DevOps: Stability AND Throughput)
This may sound insane, but I have tried to relate higher performance IT, using the the book Accelerate (Forsgren) and the 2018 Accelerate State of Dev…
DevOps, an IBM Perspective – it’s going to be a culture thing for the Mutable Business, not just a technology thing, and most of IBM’s ideas have general application
I’ve just had an interesting conversation with a couple of DevOps people from IBM, Eric Minick, OM lead for DevOps and James Hunter strategy lead fo…
A Story of DevOps >>Episode 9. Kryptonite (DevOps Anti-Patterns)
Do you know that as Superman's powers are destroyed by Kryptonite, DevOps powers are destroyed by Anti-Patterns - read on.
A Story of DevOps >> Episode 8. Balrog (Confront the Brutal Facts)
"The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe…
Future starting here? Looking at DevOps processes beyond simple software development
The recent TSB migration debacle was more than an Ops project and had Dev, testing and customer impacts. In these days of Ops/Dev collaboration, shoul…
A Story of DevOps >> Episode 6. Kryptonian (Value, Flow and Quality in a Complex World)
The dimensions that optimise Knowledge Work differ to those that optimise Manual Work:
Complex Work over Complicated Work.
Value, Flow, Quality ov…
A Story of DevOps >> Episode 5. Shield (Tools of the Trade)
All great artists have their tools - Thor has a hammer; Captain America, a shield; Lara Croft, a bow; David Hasselhoff, Kit; Iron Man, a multi-functio…
A Story of DevOps >> Episode 4. Assemble (Productivity and Teams)
This is the next in the series of articles on DevOps. Today, the topic is about teams and productivity. Now, like most of you, I am conditioned to fin…
A Story of DevOps >> Episode 3. Freedom… (Leadership)
We all know of great leaders who have inspired significant change. Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Winston Churchill, Moses, Alex Ferguson, William Wallac…
Origins – A Story of of DevOps
Origins: An article describing the change journey from management techniques used to manage manual workers to those needed to manage knowledge workers…
A Story of DevOps
After 2 years of implementing the philosophies and practices of Agile and DevOps, I felt it was time to share my learning and experiences with…
DevOps – Pragmatic production, not evangelism
Despite the potential of ‘digital transformation’ and IT in general, many organisations find the reality a little disappointing. Development takes longer than expected, quality is…
