Download or read book DevOps maturity in an IT service environment written by Lennart Neumann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 1,3, University of Hamburg (Department of Informatics), course: IT Management and Consulting, language: English, abstract: This thesis acknowledges DevOps as a relevant trend in information systems (IS) research and IT organizations. DevOps will be examined with a focus on characteristics and aspects of implementation and maturity. A maturity model is developed in the context of an organization, based on literary and empirical research. Businesses increasingly depend on IT in order to sell their products and services. Shorter time-to-market is essential and agile software development approaches have emerged, improving collaboration and planning between business and software development. However, while software can be developed iteratively with higher performance and efficiency, these efforts are in vain when IT operations are left out of these changes. Furthermore, iterative development techniques cannot tap the full potential and shorter time-to-market is not achieved while deployments are only possible once every six months. DevOps addresses these problems by promoting shorter release cycles and improved collaboration between development and operations professionals. This thesis uses a systematic literature review to characterize DevOps and determine implementation criteria. Using Action Design Research and interviews at an organization, a maturity model is created to visualize these learnings and give practitioners the ability to assess their organization’s DevOps performance. Consecutively, the model is applied to two environments of different DevOps maturity in an IT service environment.

Download or read book Accelerate written by Nicole Forsgren, PhD and published by IT Revolution. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Shingo Publication Award Accelerate your organization to win in the marketplace. How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for readers to apply in their own organizations. Readers will discover how to measure the performance of their teams, and what capabilities they should invest in to drive higher performance. This book is ideal for management at every level.

Download or read book Strategic Information System Agility written by Abdelkebir Sahid and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ensuring an efficient and agile information system in organizations is a real challenge. Only an agile IT strategy can underpin this. Strategic Information System Agility offers methodological and practical support to achieve effective IT agility in complex and dynamic environments.

Download or read book DevOps for the Modern Enterprise written by Mirco Hering and published by IT Revolution. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many organizations are facing the uphill battle of modernizing their legacy IT infrastructure. Most have evolved over the years by taking lessons from traditional or legacy manufacturing: creating a production process that puts the emphasis on the process instead of the people performing the tasks, allowing the organization to treat people like resources to try to achieve high-quality outcomes. But those practices and ideas are failing modern IT, where collaboration and creativeness are required to achieve high-performing, high-quality success. Mirco Hering, a thought leader in managing IT within legacy organizations, lays out a roadmap to success for IT managers, showing them how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, and how to put the right technology in the driver's seat to propel their organization to success. But just having the right methods and tools will not magically transform an organization; the cultural change that is the hardest is also the most impactful. Using principles from Agile, Lean, and DevOps as well as first-hand examples from the enterprise world, Hering addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments.

Download or read book Continuous Innovation with DevOps written by Rainer Alt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects the new world of digitalization with classic IT management. With the presence of software in objects, products and processes, most businesses will become software-defined businesses. Software development and software management are thus key to stay competitive in an environment that demands continuous innovation. The authors provide a comprehensive introduction to continuous innovation, the DevOps concept and lay the foundations of an innovation-oriented IT management. The DevOps approach to continuous innovation, which combines lean and agile concepts with an automated tool chain, enables solutions that synergize fast (re)action through digital innovation on the one hand and long-term development cycles and stable operation on the other. A comprehensive case study of T-Systems MMS, a digital service provider from Deutsche Telekom in Germany, illustrates the use of this approach in practice.

Download or read book Devops Strategies written by Lars Dibbern and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DevOps and Continuous Delivery have the potential to redeem an old promise from the IT industry, namely to make the software factory come true. This means the creation of software releases as part of an automated production chain and seamless deployment of the releases into the production environment, enabling the delivery of software products to the customer at a high frequency and with an appropriate quality. When DevOps is introduced to IT service providers, this is not done on the greenfield, but in established organizations with embedded processes and workflows. These are often structured according to proven procedures and processes described in ITIL. This book attempts to identify strategic options available for the integration of a DevOps culture and the introduction of Continuous Delivery Pipelines into IT service organizations. For large IT service organizations, DevOps, in combination with Continuous Delivery provides the possibility of replacing offshoring relationships, which are affected by friction losses, by efficient in-house developments. Other advantages of DevOps In combination with Continuous Delivery might be: Increased development speed and productivity Shortened time-to-market Increased quality Savings in the capacity of software developers Savings in capacities of software testers.

Download or read book Continuous Delivery written by Jez Humble and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award! Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours— sometimes even minutes–no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base. Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk delivery process. Next, they introduce the “deployment pipeline,” an automated process for managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the “ecosystem” needed to support continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance. The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure management and data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify best practices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes • Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software • Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels • Improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations • Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams • Implementing an effective configuration management strategy • Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation • Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements • Implementing continuous deployment and zero-downtime releases • Managing infrastructure, data, components and dependencies • Navigating risk management, compliance, and auditing Whether you’re a developer, systems administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help your organization move from idea to release faster than ever—so you can deliver value to your business rapidly and reliably.

Download or read book IT Governance and Information Security written by Yassine Maleh and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT governance seems to be one of the best strategies to optimize IT assets in an economic context dominated by information, innovation, and the race for performance. The multiplication of internal and external data and increased digital management, collaboration, and sharing platforms exposes organizations to ever-growing risks. Understanding the threats, assessing the risks, adapting the organization, selecting and implementing the appropriate controls, and implementing a management system are the activities required to establish proactive security governance that will provide management and customers the assurance of an effective mechanism to manage risks. IT Governance and Information Security: Guides, Standards, and Frameworks is a fundamental resource to discover IT governance and information security. This book focuses on the guides, standards, and maturity frameworks for adopting an efficient IT governance and information security strategy in the organization. It describes numerous case studies from an international perspective and brings together industry standards and research from scientific databases. In this way, this book clearly illustrates the issues, problems, and trends related to the topic while promoting the international perspectives of readers. This book offers comprehensive coverage of the essential topics, including: IT governance guides and practices; IT service management as a key pillar for IT governance; Cloud computing as a key pillar for Agile IT governance; Information security governance and maturity frameworks. In this new book, the authors share their experience to help you navigate today’s dangerous information security terrain and take proactive steps to measure your company’s IT governance and information security maturity and prepare your organization to survive, thrive, and keep your data safe. It aspires to provide a relevant reference for executive managers, CISOs, cybersecurity professionals, engineers, and researchers interested in exploring and implementing efficient IT governance and information security strategies.

Download or read book DevOps Lead Critical Questions Skills Assessment written by The Art Of Service and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are what you called ITSM best practices just a few years ago now suddenly bad practices? Do you already have some amazing software engineers and lack the infrastructure knowledge? Does the pipeline provide enough components to enable IoT app deployment on multi cloud? How are emerging philosophies as DevOps changing the IT operations management environment? How do other organizations use cloud-based environments to facilitate testing in DevOps? How would you grade your continuous delivery/deployment pipeline in terms of automation? What determines which DevOps principles and practices will BEST benefit your organization? What does it look like to implement DevOps in a more traditional operations organization? What part of the DevOps journey are you trying to build within with your cloud automation? What practices have been implemented over time to maintain a culture of trust and respect? This DevOps Lead Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the DevOps Lead challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems. Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make DevOps Lead investments work better. This DevOps Lead All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth DevOps Lead Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of DevOps Lead maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which DevOps Lead improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: Diagnose DevOps Lead projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices. Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals. Integrate recent advances in DevOps Lead and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines. Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the DevOps Lead Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which DevOps Lead areas need attention. Your purchase includes access to the DevOps Lead self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.

Download or read book Team Topologies written by Matthew Skelton and published by IT Revolution. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs? Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity. In Team Topologies, IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help readers choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams. Team Topologies is a major step forward in organizational design for software, presenting a well-defined way for teams to interact and interrelate that helps make the resulting software architecture clearer and more sustainable, turning inter-team problems into valuable signals for the self-steering organization.

Download or read book Global Information Diffusion and Management in Contemporary Society written by Zhang, Zuopeng (Justin) and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing business environments and information technology advancements fundamentally reshaped the traditional information landscape in our contemporary society, urging companies to seek innovative ways to diffuse and manage assets on a global scale. It is crucial for society to understand the new methodologies and common practices that organizations can utilize to leverage their knowledge into practice. Global Information Diffusion and Management in Contemporary Society is an essential reference source featuring research on the development and implementation of contemporary global information management initiatives in organizations. Including coverage on a multitude of topics such as data security, global manufacturing, and information governance, this book explores the importance of information management in a global context. This book is ideally designed for managers, information systems specialists, professionals, researchers, and administrators seeking current research on the theories and applications of global information management.

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Download or read book DevOps Strategies 2nd Edition written by Lars Dibbern and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DevOps and Continuous Delivery have the potential to redeem an old promise from the IT industry, namely to make the software factory come true. This means the creation of software releases as part of an automated production chain and seamless deployment of the releases into the production environment, enabling the delivery of software products to the customer at a high frequency and with an appropriate quality. When DevOps is introduced to IT service providers, this is not done on the greenfield, but in established organizations with embedded processes and workflows. These are often structured according to proven procedures and processes described in ITIL. This book attempts to identify strategic options available for the integration of a DevOps culture and the introduction of Continuous Delivery Pipelines into IT service organizations. For large IT service organizations, DevOps, in combination with Continuous Delivery provides the possibility of replacing offshoring relationships, which are affected by friction losses, by efficient in-house developments. Other advantages of DevOps In combination with Continuous Delivery might be: Increased development speed and productivity Shortened time-to-market Increased quality Savings in the capacity of software developers Savings in capacities of software testers.

Download or read book Public Cloud Potential in an Enterprise Environment written by Niklas Feil and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building a DevOps Culture written by Mandi Walls and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DevOps is as much about culture as it is about tools When people talk about DevOps, they often emphasize configuration management systems, source code repositories, and other tools. But, as Mandi Walls explains in this Velocity report, DevOps is really about changing company culture—replacing traditional development and operations silos with collaborative teams of people from both camps. The DevOps movement has produced some efficient teams turning out better products faster. The tough part is initiating the change. This report outlines strategies for managers looking to go beyond tools to build a DevOps culture among their technical staff. Topics include: Documenting reasons for changing to DevOps before you commit Defining meaningful and achievable goals Finding a technical leader to be an evangelist, tools and process expert, and shepherd Starting with a non-critical but substantial pilot project Facilitating open communication among developers, QA engineers, marketers, and other professionals Realigning your team’s responsibilities and incentives Learning when to mediate disagreements and conflicts Download this free report and learn how to the DevOps approach can help you create a supportive team environment built on communication, respect, and trust. Mandi Walls is a Senior Consultant with Opscode.

Download or read book Cloud Native written by Boris Scholl and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developers often struggle when first encountering the cloud. Learning about distributed systems, becoming familiar with technologies such as containers and functions, and knowing how to put everything together can be daunting. With this practical guide, you’ll get up to speed on patterns for building cloud native applications and best practices for common tasks such as messaging, eventing, and DevOps. Authors Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson, and Peter Jausovec describe the architectural building blocks for a modern cloud native application. You’ll learn how to use microservices, containers, serverless computing, storage types, portability, and functions. You’ll also explore the fundamentals of cloud native applications, including how to design, develop, and operate them. Explore the technologies you need to design a cloud native application Distinguish between containers and functions, and learn when to use them Architect applications for data-related requirements Learn DevOps fundamentals and practices for developing, testing, and operating your applications Use tips, techniques, and best practices for building and managing cloud native applications Understand the costs and trade-offs necessary to make an application portable

Download or read book Evolving Software Processes written by Arif Ali Khan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVOLVING SOFTWARE PROCESSES The book provides basic building blocks of evolution in software processes, such as DevOps, scaling agile process in GSD, in order to lay a solid foundation for successful and sustainable future processes. One might argue that there are already many books that include descriptions of software processes. The answer is “yes, but.” Becoming acquainted with existing software processes is not enough. It is tremendously important to understand the evolution and advancement in software processes so that developers appropriately address the problems, applications, and environments to which they are applied. Providing basic knowledge for these important tasks is the main goal of this book. Industry is in search of software process management capabilities. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the industry’s need for software-specific process management capabilities. Most of today’s products and services are based to a significant degree on software and are the results of largescale development programs. The success of such programs heavily depends on process management capabilities, because they typically require the coordination of hundreds or thousands of developers across different disciplines. Additionally, software and system development are usually distributed across geographical, cultural and temporal boundaries, which make the process management activities more challenging in the current pandemic situation. This book presents an extremely comprehensive overview of the evolution in software processes and provides a platform for practitioners, researchers and students to discuss the studies used for managing aspects of the software process, including managerial, organizational, economic and technical. It provides an opportunity to present empirical evidence, as well as proposes new techniques, tools, frameworks and approaches to maximize the significance of software process management. Audience The book will be used by practitioners, researchers, software engineers, and those in software process management, DevOps, agile and global software development.