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Here's how to use your DevOps data to streamline your operation and learn from your mistakes.

The 16th State of Agile Report details notable trends and issues in Agile adoption and practice for organizations.

Last week I made a presentation on “Role of a manager as an innovation catalyst” to 50 odd managers at their company’s offsite. One manager ...

DevOps skills are in high demand. So what are the keys to successful DevOps recruiting? Here's six tips to finding the right people for your team.

To succeed in DevOps you need the right people with the right skills in the right roles. Here are the seven must-have DevOps roles for a successful...

DevOps requires change in IT culture. But when recruiting DevOps talent, what are the specific skills and traits to look for? This article offers...

Understand how sys admins, developers, testers, security pros and others blend their expertise into collaborative DevOps roles and responsibilities.

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That multiweek cycle that suits the dev team isn’t always a great fit for devops

Accelerate measures software delivery performance—and what drives it—using four years of groundbreaking research and rigorous statistical methods: DORA Metrics.

DevOps security that's easily incorporated into app delivery pipelines and efficiently managed by IT ops among private and public cloud data centers is a top priority for Alaska Airlines as it modernizes its applications.

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A great online shopping experience begins with great software, and Alaska Airlines is using microservices, Microsoft Azure, and Windows Server Containers with D

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How Fannie Mae Applied DevOps to Deliver Quality at Speed.

Australia Post's response to the challenges of disruption has been to become one of the biggest digital agencies you've never heard of.

Agile means aggressive dumping of big iron

Use it properly and completely and it will provide a direct path to process optimization and an operation that is assured long-term survival.

Continuous Delivery means you build software in such a way that it can be released to production at any time

Engineering | The HubSpot Product Blog is where we riff about topics of interest to us from engineering, to UX, to product management and beyond.

blue-green deployments have been practiced at places like Amazon for 10+ years. They’re a safe, proven, method. Now, blue-green deployments are not a silver bullet, but there’s an element of usefulness to them.

If you are a modern IT shop and not doing DevOps, there’s something wrong with you. Okay, that’s not fair: DevOps is not easy to adopt, much less succeed at in terms of transforming your organization into an agile, rapid, business-aligned machine. DevOps is not about having the best change management or IT automation toolset.…

Continuous improvement programs are proliferating as corporations seek to better themselves and gain an edge. Unfortunately, however, failed programs far outnumber successes, and improvement rates remain low. That’s because most companies have failed to grasp a basic truth. Before people and companies can improve, they first must learn. And to do this, they need to look beyond rhetoric and high philosophy and focus on the fundamentals. Three critical issues must be addressed before a company can truly become a learning organization, writes HBS Professor David Garvin. First is the question of meaning: a well-grounded easy-to-apply definition of a learning organization. Second comes management: clearer operational guidelines for practice. Finally, better tools for measurement can assess an organization’s rate and level of learning. Using these “three M’s” as a framework, Garvin defines learning organizations as skilled at five main activities: systematic problem-solving, experimentation with new approaches, learning from past experiences, learning from the best practices of others, and transferring knowledge quickly and efficiently throughout the organization. And since you can’t manage something if you can’t measure it, a complete learning audit is a must. That includes measuring cognitive and behavioral changes as well as tangible improvements in results. No learning organization is built overnight. Success comes from carefully cultivated attitudes, commitments, and management processes that accrue slowly and steadily. The first step is to foster an environment conducive to learning. Analog Devices, Chaparral Steel, Xerox, GE, and other companies provide enlightened examples.