In my previous post I highlighted a number of patterns that lead to failures of agile initiatives. In this post I will discuss solutions for each pattern.
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Why Agile Initiatives Fail and Why DevOps Initiatives Should Worry
As a consultant, I get to travel around the country and see many companies in action. Almost every company I visit is practicing what they call an agile methodology, with varying degrees of success. The companies that are good at agile tend to have happy customers and high morale. Unfortunately, many companies I visit are …
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Docker: Delivering Agility One Container at a Time
One of the most interesting innovations that I have seen is Docker. Docker is a Linux container engine that is simplifying the process of delivering environments.
How DevOps Can Turn Fragile to Agile
DevOps is not a role. It is a cultural shift towards building better quality software faster and more reliable through great collaboration and teamwork.
SaltStack is Gaining Momentum
In the world of DevOps, the names Chef and Puppet have been synonymous with systems and configuration management in the cloud. But now it is time to make room for a third synonym, Salt. Salt, short for SaltStack, was started in the basement of Founder and CTO Tom Hatch.
The Many Faces of PaaS
By now, enterprises understand the value of Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), but there still is much confusion about Platform as a Service (PaaS). This confusion is one reason why enterprises have been slow to adopt PaaS. Why is there so much confusion? Because PaaS is still in its early days of maturity, but it is growing up really quickly right before our eyes.