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4 Things You MUST Have in Order to Say You’re Doing DevOps

1. Continuous Integration (CI)

Joseph Campbell

7 Signs Your Architecture Is Not Agile-Ready

I have heard it asked many times, “Where do architects fit into Agile?” But that's the wrong question. Instead, you should be asking, "Is our architecture Agile-Ready?" One reason for adopting Agile ...

Eric Taylor

Getting Started with JIRA Portfolio 2.0

JIRA Portfolio is a powerful tool which provides an easy way to manage one or more teams' backlogs and schedule work for months at a time. Portfolio for JIRA 2.0, which was just recently released, ...

Ashley Hope

4 Sure-Fire Signs Your Company Needs DevOps

All your software deployments happen very late at night/very early in the morning

Joseph Campbell

6 Reasons to use Postman/Newman for API Integration Testing

You wrote a fancy new API that handles everything you can throw at it. You spent hours doing manual testing to make sure your API works perfectly. You release your code and make some updates. Now you ...

Michael Fried

DevOps Story - The Greatest Story Never Told

The DevOps Story Needs to Be Told! There is so much chatter about DevOps these days, but so little clarity about what it really means. The shame of it is that very few of us have really heard the ...

BrianB

Getting Started with Zephyr for JIRA in 5 Easy Steps

The lack of built-in test support for JIRA can feel like a strange omission. Luckily, there are multiple JIRA plugins that add testing support to JIRA, the most popular of which is Zephyr. However, ...

Jack Ozment

How does an organization foster a Culture of Commitment?

Now that you are hopefully convinced that you want your organization to be steeped in a Culture of Commitment, how do you infuse the CofC in your company’s DNA? The “Culture of Commitment enabling” ...

BrianB

Q&A with Joe Campbell: On DevOps Part 2:New Tools, Metrics, and Lessons of Continuous Delivery

Welcome to Interview Series! In this Series, we ask questions that you submit through our social media channels to our consulting practice leaders.

CarmenB

Why is a Culture of Commitment so impactful in an organization?

Having played senior leadership roles in many solutions delivery organizations, we have witnessed both the presence and absence of a Culture of Commitment.

BrianB