Here are a few things I seem to be saying a lot lately, while immersed in driving DevOps transformations. 1) Patience patience patience. Some people have to see and feel it to believe it. It takes years to change a corporate culture, to bring everyone along. 2) Evolution not revolution.
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Ask any IT person from the financial sector about SOX requirements and they’ll probably use some colorful language about how much time and money it sucks away.
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In 1900, 30 million people in the United States were farmers. By 1990 that number had fallen to under 3 million even as the population more than tripled. So, in a matter of speaking, 90% of American agriculture workers lost their jobs, mostly due to automation.
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User experience is not just about pretty design and attractive software screens. It encompasses every link in the chain that influences interactions between a user and the system. Historically, the enterprise software industry prioritized features and functions over usability.
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Competition between employees is an inescapable part of most people’s work lives. Whether overtly or otherwise, most companies create a dynamic in which employees compete against each other for recognition, bonuses, and promotions.
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Is it Strong DevOps? DevOps Security? Secure DevOps? DevSecOps? DevSecQAMktSalesOMGBBQOps? Who cares?
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If extra-terrestrial intelligence reached Planet Earth, landing in your IT service management (ITSM) department and started to look around, what would they see, and what would they think was the job of said ITSM team?
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Reading a recent blog about how IT departments struggle with their communication and collaboration with their end users, by Martin McKenna, I can’t avoid the conclusion that many IT departments still don’t get it.
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IT Operations people tend to be, by and large, a cautious bunch. The unstated Rule One of the profession is “if it ain’t broke, don’t touch it”.
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ITIL or the IT Infrastructure Library is not a term that we’re commonly familiar with. In fact, we’ve rarely heard about it. Well that was all about to change.
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Idwell on Service Management