SYS-CON Events announced today that CollabNet, a global leader in enterprise
software development, release automation and DevOps solutions, will be a
Bronze Sponsor of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, taking place
from June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
CollabNet offers a broad range of solutions with the mission of helping
modern organizations deliver quality software at speed. The company's latest
innovation, the DevOps Lifecycle Manager (DLM), supports Value Stream Mapping
for the development and operations tool chain by offering DevOps Tool Chain
Integration and Traceability; DevOps Tool Chain Orchestration; and DevOps
Insight and Intelligence. CollabNet also offers traditional application
lifecycle management, ALM, for the enterprise through its TeamForge product.
To learn about CollabNet solutions, visit: https://www.collab.net/... (more)
Three Steps to DevOps for Core Enterprise Teams
Did you know that you can develop for mainframes in Java? Or that the testing
and deployment can be automated across mobile to mainframe?
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Vaughn Marshall, Sr.
Principal Product Owner at CA Technologies, will discuss and demo how
increasingly teams are developing with agile methodologies using modern
development environments and automating testing and deployments, mobile to
mainframe.
Speaker Bio
With over 15 years' experience in Information Technology, Vaughn Marshall has
worked in a variety of areas including Development, Quality Assurance and
Software Change & Configuration Management. He has consulted on designing,
implementing and automating software development lifecycle processes for
numerous Fortune 500 companies. Most recently, he has been working on
adaptin... (more)
The visual model to declarative metadata representation to immutable
deployment vision is in essence what SD is all about.
The secret to making this approach practical, and thus the key to
understanding why SD approaches have become so prevalent, is the word
immutable.
Once we get an SD approach right, we no longer have to touch the deployed
technology whatsoever. Instead, to make a change, update the model and
redeploy.
In a recent Cortex, I bemoaned the fact that as buzzwords go, Digital
Transformation is excessively vague. There is yet another buzzword of our
times that is suffering the same fate: Software-Defined.
Rare though buzz-adjectives may be among the pantheon of buzz-nouns and the
occasional buzz-verb, Software-Defined (SD) has become remarkably pervasive.
In fact, it ties together many different, quite disparate concepts into what
has become a vague mi... (more)
I'm told that it has been 21 years since Scrum became public when Jeff
Sutherland and I presented it at an Object-Oriented Programming, Systems,
Languages & Applications (OOPSLA) workshop in Austin, TX, in October of 1995.
Time sure does fly. Things mature. I'm still in the same building and at the
same company where I first formulated Scrum.[1] Initially nobody knew of
Scrum, yet it is now an open source body of knowledge translated into more
than 30 languages.[2] People use Scrum worldwide for developing software and
other uses I never anticipated.[3]
Scrum was born and initially used by Jeff and me to meet market demand at our
respective companies. After we made Scrum public in 1996 and writing my paper
SCRUM Development Process, we started trying Scrum publicly, in companies
with critical needs that were willing to try anything. The first organization
where we e... (more)
The Deconstruction of Digital Transformation
Guest post by Intellyx Principal Analyst Charles Araujo
The complex idea behind the term digital transformation is that technology
has created a fundamental shift in how organizations operate. The
consumerization of technology - and the customer empowerment it created - has
upended the traditional operating paradigm of organizations moving it away
from a capital and process-centric model to a customer-centric one.
The need to digitally transform your organization is now - or at least should
be - a strategic imperative. The fact, however, that the term digital
transformation is now a bona fide buzzword has obfuscated its importance.
The problem is that we create buzzwords because we need a simple, shorthand
way of communicating what is otherwise a complex idea. In the process,
however, the deeper, underlying complexity of the... (more)
Digital transformation. Digital strategy. Digital leadership. Digital
enterprise. Digital customer journey.
It seems the list of things that have gone digital is unending and remarkably
broad.
Underlying all of these intertwined digital concepts? Unquestionably, some
kind of technology.
Digital technology.
Just one problem: nobody agrees on just what constitutes digital technology.
And without a grasp on what technologies are digital - or more to the point,
what technologies are not digital - we've built our entire digital edifice on
a foundation of sand.
Ones and Zeroes
We can all agree that the broadest definition of digital technology would be
technology that uses ones and zeroes to represent data. After all, bits - aka
binary digits - are where we got the word digital in the first place.
Using this definition, digital technology launched on Valentine's Day in ... (more)
Freeze the Pond vs Take the Hill: Two Metaphors for Enterprise Agile
Transformation
It is ironic, but perhaps not unexpected, that many organizations who want
the benefits of using an Agile approach to deliver software use a waterfall
approach to adopting Agile practices: they form plans, they set milestones,
and they measure progress by how many teams they have engaged. Old habits die
hard, but like most waterfall software projects, most waterfall-style Agile
adoption efforts fail to produce the results desired. The problem is that to
get the results they want, they have to change their culture and cultures are
very hard to change. To paraphrase Peter Drucker, "culture eats Agile for
breakfast." Successful approaches are opportunistic and leverage the power of
self-organization to achieve lasting change.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit, Kurt Bittner, Vice President... (more)
DevOps Evolution: Architecting the Modern Software Factory
Translating agile methodology into real-world best practices within the
modern software factory has driven widespread DevOps adoption, yet much work
remains to expand workflows and tooling across the enterprise.
As models evolve from pockets of experimentation into wholescale
organizational reinvention, practitioners find themselves challenged to
incorporate the culture and architecture necessary to support DevOps at
scale.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Anand Akela, Senior
Director of DevOps Solutions at CA Technologies, will discuss how existing
adopters are employing unified agile and DevOps techniques to engage
functional processes and toolchains that deliver increased software quality,
faster time-to-market and measurably improved customer experience. Specific
topics to be highlig... (more)
I recently had a conversation with Jennifer Lent from TechTarget. She's a
respected thinker in our field and covers major trends. We spoke about the
emergence of BizDevOps and its implications for businesses.
We tackled a number of topics. She wrote about our conversation in a recent
article, "BizDevOps: Here's how to make it happen in your organization."
Since our conversation, I've been thinking more about BizDevOps, its
challenges, and what makes the BizDevOps pipeline flow.
Peter Drucker made the prescient statement that "Culture eats strategy for
breakfast." This applies to BizDevOps - changing tech is not hard, but
changing culture is. You can buy the tools and put the processes into place,
but getting team buy-in and creating the cultural shift to make BizDevOps run
are not easy tasks.
This type of change requires leadership commitment, communication, and
edu... (more)
Top Continuous Integration Tools
By Angela Stringfellow
Poorly managed development projects are bound to crash eventually. It's
likely happened to you a dozen of times already. While writing code can be a
lot of fun, managing code and dependencies can quickly become a maze of its
own when you're dealing with the continuous growth of your codebase and
feature branches. At Stackify, we aim to make the lives of developers easier
(and less frazzling). One way to de-stress your work is with the aid of
continuous integration tools.
Continuous Integration came as an adoption of a more refined programming
practice, which aims to help developers with preventing serious integration
pitfalls. As you continue to build your project, there are more things to
integrate, and back-tracking can quickly become a time-consuming chore. CI
Tools automate many tedious tasks and make it ea... (more)
Intellyx's 2017 Digital Transformation Predictions
Guest post by Intellyx Principal Analyst Charles Araujo
Once again, we find ourselves at the dawn of a new year.
And many would say, not a moment too soon. With a series of tumultuous
elections around the world and an unusual number of celebrity passings, it's
been a rough year.
But there is at least one bright spot from 2016: Intellyx's digital
transformation prognostications were close to spot on!
As is our tradition, each year we review last year's predictions and make all
new fresh ones! This year, it is my turn to review Jason's 2016 predictions
and let you know what I see happening in the coming year.
A Look Back on a Year of Inflection Points
Our predictions for 2016 centered on one thing: inflection points.
We predicted that blockchain, IoT security and open source web scale
technology would all turn the corner... (more)
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