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Product vs. Project: Balancing Management Roles for Success
Many businesses today rely on project management to ensure that all the activities that are required to help the business function are able to do so efficiently. The importance of project management is ingrained into many businesses, and doesn’t need to be justified—or does it? For software development companies, product management also needs to be […]
Jul 9, 2020 · 3 minAll articles by Jeffrey Keyes
Showing 1–4How to Achieve a Converged Toolchain
In recent years, there’s been an explosion of tools for developing and delivering software. In a single pipeline, a company will have separate tools to ideate, plan, code, verify, configure, release and monitor new software, and every pipeline can have different tools for each individual stage (i.e. ideation). That’s a lot of tools, and providing […]
Is Release Management Dead in the DevOps World?
In the world of enterprise application development and delivery, release management was born from the operations team attempting to reduce risk in the delivery pipeline. It’s the operations team’s job to ensure all production runs are stable, while the development team focuses on creating and shipping new products and applications. While this seems well-defined, integrated […]
The Terrain of DevOps is Strewn with Pitfalls
As Gene Kim, one of the leading thinkers in DevOps, once said, “DevOps is not about what you do, but what your outcomes are.” What he’s telling us is that DevOps is about enabling a rapid flow of work that transitions from development to testing to operations, but the bottom line is that it’s about […]