DevOps is helping development and operations teams work more effectively together. There are also other essential stakeholders who can benefit from improved communication and collaboration, including information security, QA, and testing teams. As every stakeholder needs to understand his role and assigned tasks, application lifecycle management (ALM) provides the essential best practice that ensures that every team member knows what he needs to accomplish and how to communicate effectively with the other members. This article explains how ALM can be best used to drive DevOps.

Many large-scale projects require a remarkable number of deliverables that can be challenging to manage and maintain. This article explores the facility capital project information and the need for the owner/operator (O/O) to explore the individual deliverable documents to develop a listing of digital content necessary to support facility lifecycle processes.

Leslie Sachs writes how dysfunctional operations teams are often a consequence of a dysfunctional organizational culture that breeds distrust and results in employees who just sit back and allow disasters to occur. If you want your organization to be successful, you need to ensure that you drive out any aspect of learned helplessness and embrace a positive culture that enjoys a can-do attitude!

By implementing configuration flags as part of the initial stages of development, engineers imbue all new features with the capability to leverage system-level strategies, such as multivariate testing, beta testing, and “emergency toggles.” In this article, Noah Sussman describes some battle-tested strategies to implement and leverage configuration flags in production.