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DevOps Survey Details Development’s Fastest Growing Trend It seems like only yesterday we were poring over the 2013 State of Agile report, and now it's time for DevOps turn in the sun. We take a close look at why DevOps has become the next big thing and speculate on why it's being adopted at some of the hottest companies. |
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Five Best Practices Used to Create Agile IT in the Cloud Top companies worldwide are seeing the benefits of expanding agile outside of software development, and into IT, and further across the enterprise. Nate Odell takes a look at the top five ways IT is becoming more agile through collaboration and the cloud. |
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Why Do IT Professionals Succumb to Project Overload? Joe Townsend explores why IT professionals continue to succumb to project overload. The problem is not that we take on too much; the problem lies in the fact that we don’t manage our projects very well, and these repeated failures lead to overload as we can’t deliver what we promise. |
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Five Reasons Why Agile Can Fail Unfortunately, some projects fail, even when using an agile development methodology. Instead of just rehashing horror stories, Joe Townsend attempts to get to the bottom of why these failures occur. |
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There's No Such Thing as an IT Project Adrian Reed makes the case that there is no such thing as an IT project—there are only business projects that implement, impact, change, or interface with IT. This sounds like a subtle distinction, but it’s deceptively important. |
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Need Another Reason to Consider DevOps? Automation is a critical component of eliminating waste. A large part of the DevOps movement is centered on automating the infrastructure tasks that take away from delivering value. In addition to the obvious cost savings of automation, it can also breed innovation. |
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Why Testers Need to Become More Technical As projects become more technical, testers themselves must adapt and become more technical. With technologies getting more complex each day, testers need to know how to identify risks and find problems deep within the technology stack. |
