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“Culture” isn’t a swear word
I’ve heard a number of lazy criticisms of DevOps recently particularly where individuals talk about culture and that gets my goat. “It’s fluffy” “It’s in-actionable” “DevOps is just automation” “Cultural change isn’t relevant in a bank – its a term used by the Facebook’s of this world” I think part of this is the continuing […]
Sep 24, 2015 · 3 minAll articles by Jonathan Fletcher
Showing 1–5The 8 “why’s” of Cloud
Myself and the gang have been talking about Cloud a lot recently as we are embarking on a multi-year journey. Cloud is fashionable but is this another cool toy for the techies? As an architect I think the most powerful question in my toolbox is “why”. Why are we doing this? Does it add business value? […]
DevOps – what does “good” look like?
I’ve blogged a lot about my definition of DevOps and what it means to me. I’ve always thought it much larger than “Dev” and “Ops” and that there isn’t really an end state – it’s an ever changing idea that will adapt to meet the needs of the business. That said, I’m asked quite often […]
Daddy DevOps
I found out this week I’m going to become a Dad. It’s a strange mix of emotions from excited, to terrified, to panicked and happiness. Not too dissimilar to undertaking a big new project, scoping out how complex it is, getting close to go-live and then delivering it 🙂 [if any one you say I […]
Moving to DevOps in a traditional enterprise
Introduction One of the challenges of introducing DevOps in the setting of a traditional (i.e. siloed, waterfall etc) Enterprise is where to begin. It’s certainly something I wrestled with alongside the CTO for quite some time. It’s not possible to impart years of experience of moving a large company to a DevOps ways of […]