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DevOps and Reckless Driving There is a trend of development managers suggesting that they need to embrace DevOps—but without the “Ops.” They argue that the operations team is too slow and lacks the skills to really participate. We want speed, but we also need to avoid error while improving reliability and enhancing security. |
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How DevOps Is Now Driving Agile Like agile, people are quickly adopting and making great use of DevOps, which stresses communication, automation, and a strong sense of cooperation within a team. Yet, while it can be argued that agile spawned DevOps, some software veterans argue that it’s DevOps that’s actually pushing agile. |
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How to Eat an Elephant: Tips for Facilitating Test Process Improvement How do you eat an elephant? The answer is, of course, “One bite at a time.” When working on improving a process, you need to create your backlog of initiatives, prioritize them, and identify the initiatives that can be implemented easily. Give the feeling of progress … and then take it in bites. |
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Quick Tips to Kick-Start Accessibility Testing Implementing accessibility testing in your organization requires efficiency, accuracy, and a toolbox of smart practices. A focus on proper infrastructure, resources, and software testing tools is an important step. Read on for some tips on performing a comprehensive accessibility testing effort. |
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How to Tell if Your Team Is Really Agile Agile teams run like a well-oiled machine, so it’s important to take a look at your group and assess just how agile it really is. What fixable problems might you be experiencing that are jamming up the system, causing the process to run slower than it needs to? |
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When to Disclose Bad News to Employees An issue that often arises in organizational change is when to tell employees about something they're likely to view as bad news. Sometimes managers are forced to keep bad news to themselves, but if that's not the case, it's better—and more honest—from the employees' perspective to share it earlier. |
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The Challenge of Being the Intermediary Within every team, people have different methods of tackling problems. Some strive to solve a problem within its bounds, while on the other end of the spectrum, others redefine the problem. Smack in the middle: the intermediary. Though it's tough, this role is important in bridging the two sides. |
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Overcome DevOps Adoption Barriers to Accelerate Software Delivery Every team can improve its delivery speed. When teams increase agility and reduce time to market by adopting agile software development practices, DevOps principles, and cloud self-service platforms, they choose a development and operations environment that accelerates software delivery. |