behaviorally speaking

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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.

Bob Aiello's picture Bob Aiello
January 8, 2013
DevOps in the Enterprise

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.
Bob Aiello's picture Bob Aiello
December 17, 2012
The Challenges of DevOps in the Enterprise

Many small teams are successful at implementing DevOps practices such as continuous integration. However, enterprises may find implementing DevOps best practices to be much more challenging. This article will help you understand how to be successful implementing DevOps in the enterprise.
Bob Aiello's picture Bob Aiello
November 20, 2012
How to Successfully Develop and Deploy DevOps 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?
Bob Aiello's picture Bob Aiello
September 18, 2012
Streamlining and Automating Your Way to CM Excellence

Bob Aiello discusses hands-on software configuration management best practices within the context of organizational and group behavior. Excellence in CM requires that you implement best practices that meet the needs of your team. Done well, automated build, package, and deployment can help streamline the entire software and system development process, improving quality and productivity for your entire team.
Bob Aiello's picture Bob Aiello
September 4, 2012
Instituting Change from the Bottom Up Instituting Change from the Bottom Up

In his Behaviorally Speaking series, Bob Aiello discusses hands-on software configuration management best practices within the context of organizational and group behavior. While conventional wisdom may say that "change comes from the top," Bob Aiello explains that change often needs to come from the bottom, that is the people doing the day-to-day work.
Bob Aiello's picture Bob Aiello
July 3, 2012
Building Best Practices Boost Processes and Quality How CM's Best Practices Boost Processes and Quality

In his Behaviorally Speaking series, Bob Aiello discusses hands-on software configuration management best practices within the context of organizational and group behavior. Bob Aiello helps you enhance your existing CM best practices by applying the core principles that deliver excellent process and quality.
Bob Aiello's picture Bob Aiello
May 17, 2012
How Small Teams Can Build Big Systems How Small Teams Can Build Big Systems

Small teams can be highly effective at creating big systems. In this "Behaviorially Speaking" feature, Bob Aiello explains how to be successful in a small team environment and also handle the growth often necessitated by success.
Bob Aiello's picture Bob Aiello
April 26, 2012

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