DevOps

One Project To Rule Them All

Developer Support July 15, 2019 Jul 15, 2019 07/15/19

Unfortunately, many enterprises have multiple organizations and projects in their portfolio and merging them into a single project can seem a daunting task. While there are tools out there that can help, there is no “Single Tool To Rule Them All”.

Learn How to Ask the Right Questions!

Developer Support June 30, 2019 Jun 30, 2019 06/30/19

if you want to change something, never immediately assume that current conditions are immutable. If you’ve never discussed the possibility to change, you cannot know whether others – your partners, customers, teammates, or managers – would resist, or the reverse – enthusiastically gush and support the change.

4 Ways to Integrate Development and Operations Efforts

Developer Support June 30, 2019 Jun 30, 2019 06/30/19

How do you deal with the fact that the developers in your organization cannot or will not own the process of delivering into production? How do you deal with the fact that your operations engineers cannot or do not fully understand the software to which they have been given stewardship?

The Journey Begins – DevOps starts with culture!

Developer Support June 29, 2019 Jun 29, 2019 06/29/19

At this point we were five plus years into a local transformation that was underappreciated and overlooked by the global IT organization. The frustration was high and the hope was waning. For me this became my motivation to start a journey to understand why some organization can adopt DevOps strategies successfully and other struggle.

Tribal Knowledge – The Anti-DevOps Culture

Developer Support June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 06/27/19

By removing or reducing tribal knowledge from projects and teams, organizations set themselves up for success in an ever-changing landscape (exponentially changing). In other words, you can add to your DevOps culture (or create one) simply by subtracting the bad habits and behaviors.

Is the latest technology the key to your team’s success, or is there something else?

Developer Support June 15, 2019 Jun 15, 2019 06/15/19

We experienced many different emotions with what seemed like a daunting task. What made it less daunting, the facilitators reminded us, was that we are not alone - we are team - so, leverage each other.

DevOps and Your Definition of Done

Developer Support June 10, 2019 Jun 10, 2019 06/10/19

DevOps, among other things, is about collaboration, and a shared responsibility for delivering features into production. Your Definition of Done should reflect this. Learn why and how you should explicitly define Done to improve collaboration and quality.

Understanding Your Cloud Adoption Maturity Level

Developer Support June 8, 2019 Jun 8, 2019 06/8/19

To be successful an enterprise must address people, process and technology when adopting the cloud. I often witness organizations migrating to Azure focus primarily on the cloud technologies and fail to assess their current maturity readiness.

How to fetch a user’s profile from Azure Active Directory using PowerShell

Developer Support June 2, 2019 Jun 2, 2019 06/2/19

On my recent journey helping customers migrate from TFS to VSTS; one of the most common obstacle is verifying that users marked for active import to VSTS have matching AAD records. Thankfully there is a fairly streamlined way to do this using PowerShell and the Azure Graph API.

Conflicting Principles; DevOps VS ITIL.

Developer Support May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19

On the surface DevOps and ITIL seem to be contradictory practices, with the former being more used in development work and the latter being more used for services/operations. However, if we drill down into their fundamentals you will find that DevOps cannot exist in its entirety without a framework such as ITIL.

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