The “Why” should always come before the “How”. It’s important to first set goals–you need to have a target to aim at before you pick up an arrow or draw back the bow. The best tools and practices in the […]
Don’t Think About How to Do DevOps Until You Figure Out Why Read More »
It has become a bit cliché, but back when The Social Network came out in 2010, Justin Timberlake delivered my favorite movie line of all-time, “A million dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool…A billion dollars.” That line hit home
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The tech industry loves “co-opetition” where competing vendors willingly work together when it is beneficial for themselves and their customers. Generally, the co-opetition dynamic works as advertised with some strategic relationships going back for decades. That said, co-opetition partners occasionally
IBM DB2 Direct Makes a Clear Case for Oracle Migration Read More »
We often talk about current rivalries like Google vs. Apple vs. Microsoft, but these pale next to some of the wars that have gone back decades. Granted the Sun vs. IBM war is long over and—surprisingly—IBM won. In fact, IBM
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Big ideas are commonplace in the IT industry but they take on even larger roles at vendors’ annual customer and partner conferences. That was certainly the case at the recent Dell EMC World 2017 in Las Vegas. For the 13,500
Dell EMC World 2017 – Cultivating Digital Transformation Within Read More »
If your organization has already adopted a DevOps strategy, then congrats—you’re already strides ahead of other companies by choosing to invest in collaborative, productive approaches to advancing your project processes. However, as objectives and tasks within a project shift over
DevOps Streamlined: Is Your Current Strategy Working? Read More »
When organizations arrange teams around specific roles, silos often start to crop up—leading to poor communication and weak cross-departmental support. In fact, 86 percent of employees and executives view insufficient communication and lack of collaboration as causes of workplace failures.
Cross-functional Cooperation: Breaking Down Silos and Finding Your DevOps Stride Read More »
DevOps—a cross-disciplinary, collaborative practice that blends software development and information technology operations—aims to build, test, and deliver software both more quickly and reliably. It involves the entire project lifecycle, from the early stages of planning through production support efforts. The
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I’m wading through the Qualcomm answer to Apple’s lawsuit against it and when I hit page 46 (item 4 bullet 4) I had an “oh crap” moment. Qualcomm is alleging that Apple is intentionally crippling certain iPhones so that users
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With specialization among C-suite executives increasingly common, the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) is starting to gain more visibility. However, as a matter of course, business organizations hoping to succeed must be customer-centric. So why would a company need
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