devops

The business case for DevOps automation

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2017-05-07 03:17

In the past I have written sceptically about automation http://www.itskeptic.org/automation.
I have learnt better now.

DevOps represents the emergence of systems thinking in IT

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2017-04-28 10:54

Welcome to the new world of IT: systems thinking.

why DevOps transformations succeed where ITSM so often doesn't

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2017-04-26 01:41

I've consulted on many ITSM initiatives and it always seemd a struggle to effect improvement: all stick and no carrot; dragging horses to the river with no interest in drinking. My DevOps consulting these days is a different experience - of happy horses following willingly and drinking their fill. The difference between ITIL and DevOps is that DevOps works.

Optimising control constraints

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2017-04-11 00:59

Here are some notes I wrote for a client on how to optimise the constraints created by controls on the Require to Deploy to Run value stream.

Two questions to ask

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2017-04-04 19:29

Here are two questions you can ask yourself, or you can ask any person or team, to challenge them to change the way they work:

  • Can you show how your work will be better in a year?
    We want to know whether there is any improvement programme, or any bandwidth for improvements, or even any culture based on improvement.
  • Can you keep working in this way indefinitely?

DevOps has three parents: Lean, Agile, and ITSM

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2017-03-09 22:11

DevOps synthesises three bodies of knowledge: Lean, Agile, and ITSM.

Lead with DevOps

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2017-03-01 09:27

On Facebook group Back2ITSM, Daniel Breston asked a great question:

IT projects go away? #NoProjects

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2017-02-25 04:56

OK so IT project management won't go away entirely but it ceases to be the basis of our work.

The lizard brain

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2017-02-07 00:57

The lizard brain is a colloquial term for the most basic parts of your brain.
We are primal animals. We dont interact with machines in the same way as we interact with humans.

Move from change control to change facilitation

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2017-01-30 08:27

ITSM Review quoted me from Pink16 as saying
"Change Management needs to move from Change control to Change facilitation”.
This is referring of course to IT operational Change Management.

A client challenged me as to how.
My answer: One Principle - Shift Left.

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