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The Top 10 Adages in Continuous Deployment

On the basis of discussions at the Continuous Deployment Summit, researchers derived 10 adages about continuous-deployment practices. These adages represent a working set of approaches and beliefs that guide current practice and establish a tangible target for empirical validation.

Chris Atlee Michael Stumm Laurie Williams James Holman Tony Savor Mark Ghattas Brendan Murphy Chris Parnin Andy Glover Eric Helms Shari Whitaker Harley Boughton John Micco
on Sep 19, 2017
DevOps

Merging Agile and DevOps

The most popular agile framework, Scrum, predates the growth of DevOps. In consequence, the practices within scrum (and other Agile frameworks) are overwhelmingly focused on what you might loosely define as the development aspects of software delivery, and less focused on the Operational aspects.

James Betteley Matthew Skelton
on Aug 30, 2017
DevOps

DevOps Enterprise Adoption at CSG International with Erica Morrison

Erica Morrison, from CSG International, talks about their DevOps journey, key initiatives and lessons learned.

Manuel Pais
on Jul 31, 2017
Culture & Methods

The Computest Story: The Transformation to an Agile Enterprise

This article explores how Computest followed their mission towards a self-managing organization. It explains the key drivers, how the journey got started, why Computest focused on value streams and how Computest aligned roles and responsibilities and applied Kanban to operationalize ideas. It also shares the lessons learned so far and discusses what this means for the next steps to be done.

Clemens Riedl Hartger Ruijs Sigi Kaltenecker
on Jun 29, 2017
DevOps

MyHeritage Releases to Production

This article explores the Continuous Delivery journey at MyHeritage, from painful, time-consuming manual releases, to a fully automated deployment pipeline.

Ran Levy
on Jun 29, 2017
Culture & Methods

Escaping Method Prison

Methods are our best tool to get great software. But today they put us in method prisons with method wars, reliance on gurus and swings from method to method. How foolish is this? It needs to be stopped. The new Essence standard efficiently stops that path. And, teams get better methods, selected from a practice library and support in their daily work. Executives get forever learning org’s.

Roly Stimson Ivar Jacobson
on Jun 21, 2017
Development

GitLab's CEO Sid Sijbrandij on Current Development Practices

In this all-round interview, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij speaks about how GitLab was born, what differentiates it from its competitors, the importance of being an "open" company, how GitLab engineers use continuous integration, what being a remote-only company means, and much more.

Sergio De Simone
on Jun 19, 2017
Culture & Methods

Actionable Analytics for Lean Project Management

Measuring the right KPIs of your workflow is the key for implementing successful Lean project management. Applying these actionable analytics is going to help you track your team's progress towards reaching process perfection, allow you to project future performance and help you spot potential problems in an early stage.

Alexander Novkov
on Jun 03, 2017
DevOps

Continuous Delivery with Kubernetes the Hard Way

Automating continuous delivery with Kubernetes requires a Single-Source-Of-Truth, and that rollbacks can be implemented efficiently without requiring new code changes to be pushed.

Luke Marsden
on May 30, 2017
DevOps

Serverless Takes DevOps to the Next Level

Serverless doesn’t only supplement DevOps, but it goes beyond the current thinking on how IT organisations can achieve greater business agility. It’s geared towards the rapid delivery of business value and continuous improvement and learning, and as such has clear potential to drive substantial cultural change, even in organisations that have adopted DevOps culture and practices already.

Rafal Gancarz
on Apr 28, 2017
Culture & Methods

2017 State of Testing Report

The State of Testing 2017 report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. This is fourth time that this survey has been done. InfoQ held an interview with the organizers of the State of Testing survey.

Ben Linders
on Apr 07, 2017
Culture & Methods

Developing Quality Software: Differentiating Factors

The level of software quality attainable is a reflection of an organizational business decision. There are many factors that influence this decision, including development, build and testing environments effectiveness, resources and their associated skillset, integrity, motivations and experience levels, commercial agreements, and adopted processes and productivity tools.

Cynthia Freeney
on Mar 02, 2017