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Are You Paying a ‘Wait-Time Tax’ on Your Global DevOps?
Business increasingly is global, so DevOps has become global as well. In fact, for many enterprises, DevOps entails collaboration between development, test/QA and ops teams across multiple continents. This is in part due to the economics of IT labor and in part because applications for global enterprises have to be deployed globally. Unfortunately, enterprises executing […]
Jan 3, 2017 · 3 minAll articles by Barry Phillips
Showing 1–3Infrastructure’s Impact on Shifting Left
If you lead big honkin’ software development projects at a big honkin’ enterprise, you’re probably doing everything you can to shift QA left. That’s because the earlier you discover defects and shortfalls, the faster and less expensively you can bring great software to market. Unfortunately, above a certain scale, it takes more than just better […]
Big DevOps: Too Slow to Win?
There’s DevOps. And then there’s Big DevOps. DevOps is a set of disciplines that accelerates time-to-value for digital deliverables. It is being embraced by all kinds of companies, from pure-play digital market disrupters to mainstream corporates trying to maintain competitive parity with their mobile apps. Big DevOps is something else entirely. Big DevOps resembles mainstream […]