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CM Planning or Planning for CM Configuration management planning is one of the classic functions that separate organizations with good IT controls from the shops that are mired in making the same mistakes over and over again. Bob Aiello explains what exactly you put into a CM plan and how to create plans that help get the work done more effectively. |
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Puzzling My Way Through Cobit 4.1 The isaca Cobit 4.1 framework has thirty-four IT processes which include a considerable amount of information on exactly how to establish effect IT controls and, more importantly, successfully meet your IT compliance requirements. Bob Aiello takes a walk through each of the Cobit controls and discuss, in practical terms, how improved processes can be successfully implemented and supported. |
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The Origins of DevOps DevOps is a term that is being used by many different technology professionals to refer to emerging best practices in application (and systems) deployment. But what exactly is DevOps and where did it come from? Bob Aiello takes a look at the recently hyped term. |
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What Is CM Architecture, Anyway? In his CM: The Next Generation Series, Joe Farah writes that there are two sides to answering that question. One deals with your CM solution’s architecture, and the other, which may be closely related, deals with the architecture of your tools. |
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Got Configuration Management Best Practices? Why is it that we keep revisiting configuration management “best practices”? It is not that they are not well covered. It is because they keep changing and every time we look at the process of development from a different perspective, we learn something new. Ben Weatherall found that what we do under the guise of CM differs in how we identify the problems to be solved, how we address those problems, and even what tools are appropriate. |
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Has DevOps Failed? DevOps has been front and center lately (2011 and 2012) with many organizations working to embrace deployment its recommended practices—sometimes referred to as agile systems administration. However, Bob Aiello writes that in some ways, DevOps has failed and we need to hold our own retrospective to understand how we can best improve. |
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What the Cloud Wishes It Were Chris Riley writes that when an organization is considering the cloud, it has to consider its approach as well. The cloud was built on the principles of initiating things fast, and only what you need when you need it. The cloud was not built for people who follow the mantras of “set it and forget it” and “plan for everything ahead of time.” |
Chris Riley
December 18, 2012 |
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The Center of Excellence A great way to establish your software engineering processes, training, best practices, reports, and metrics is to build a center-of-excellence (CoE). When complete, a CoE is a team, or entity, that provides the leadership and governance in a focus area. Often the leadership is in the form of items such as, training, documentation, metrics, reporting. |
James Sullivan
December 17, 2012 |
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CM and ALM for Global Software Development In his CM: The Next Generation Series, Joe Farah writes that there are many reasons that organizations or government agencies use distributed development. Whatever the reason, a software development team, and indeed the entire product team, needs to do all it can to ensure that development proceeds smoothly.
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How to Successfully Develop and Deploy DevOps DevOps puts the focus on automated application lifecycle management supporting development, test, integration, quality assurance (QA), user acceptance testing (UAT), and production. But how do you develop DevOps, and how do you know when you have achieved success? |
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