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Improving Security with Mapping, Automation and DevOps
Strong cybersecurity is paramount for every organization. But all too often, security teams are disconnected from ongoing development processes and viewed either as an impediment t…
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The advent of both Agile development and DevOps were great steps in improving an IT process that had become ossified, with policies that alternated between resistance to change and trying to do things better/faster. Between them,…
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Strong cybersecurity is paramount for every organization. But all too often, security teams are disconnected from ongoing development processes and viewed either as an impediment t…
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Lean thinking has had a substantial influence on helping enterprises to improve the flow of value across their software delivery organization. Yet, for many companies in what indus…
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How value stream can be a major driver of DevOps success in today’s software-only world Even as DevOps reaches a pinnacle in acceptance (as of 2018, only three percent of firms had…
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The use of scripts as a key tool in the average developer’s bag of tricks has altered the development pipeline in significant ways. It has even led some organizations to outsource…
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This DevOps Chat features Eric Robertson, VP of product and engineering at CollabNet. We discuss value stream mapping, which comes from Lean methodology and has been around for a w…
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Here at IBM’s Lean practice we use a diagram called ‘Mississippi’ to analyze demand. It is not so-called because it originates in Mississippi – in fact I’ve been given to understan…
Doin' DevOps
Value Stream Mapping is a crucial step in assessing an organization’s DevOps capability. We create a value stream map of the software development lifecycle early in any DevOps enga…
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I recently published a blog on the Perficient Digital Transformation blog entitled “Is Cloud & DevOps Factored Into Your Digital Transformation?” In that blog I discuss the concept…