
In the software world, development and QA are often organised into two separate teams.
Developers are responsible for writing the code, which...
0 replies - 4665 views - 06/30/12 by Ben Wootton in Articles

When you’re doing research and planning application development, it’s
always useful to learn from the stories and experience of your peers.
Your...
2 replies - 9971 views - 06/25/12 by Brian Whalley in Articles

Tom Duckering was back at Skills Matter this week, and this time he
bought a friend (and fellow thoughtworker), Marc Hofer. They were there
to talk to us...
0 replies - 5252 views - 06/24/12 by James Betteley in Articles

I work with “The Enterprise” everyday. Sadly, this has nothing to do
with Star Trek – just big companies with lots of internal politics. As
our...
2 replies - 4960 views - 06/23/12 by Eric Minick in Articles

We often talk about tension caused competing bonus / success
structures for development and operations teams in the build and release
process. At Gartner...
0 replies - 3680 views - 06/20/12 by Eric Minick in Articles

A few months ago I attended a talk by Rob Harrop at SkillsMatter on the topic of Continuous Delivery. [Video Here]
Continuous Delivery is all about setting...
0 replies - 10406 views - 06/16/12 by Ben Wootton in Articles

Having a good Continuous Integration setup can be one of the
highlights of any developers daily grind. Regardless, it can be seen as
almost pointless if...
1 replies - 5272 views - 06/06/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

From Tom DeMarco’s article Software Engineering:
An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? [PDF]:
You say to your team leads, “I have a finish date in...
1 replies - 4771 views - 06/04/12 by Kief Morris in Articles

Last year I had the awesome honour of being at a tech talk on Continuous Delivery by “the great” Martin Fowler, Neal Ford and Evan Bottcher, put on by...
1 replies - 8607 views - 06/03/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

Over the past few years I have had opportunities to learn, adopt
and extend different configuration management...
1 replies - 11826 views - 05/27/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Here’s a bunch of upcoming talks, courses, conferences, things and stuff, which I reckon might be worth checking out.Goto Conference – Amsterdam May...
1 replies - 4427 views - 05/24/12 by James Betteley in Articles

While working on the Devops Cookbook with my fellow authors Gene Kim,John Willis,Mike Orzen
we are gathering a lot of "devops"...
1 replies - 7312 views - 05/15/12 by Patrick Debois in Articles

This could be brogramming. It's not devops.Devops is a big deal nowadays, and there’s a variety of ways people
describe it and its...
1 replies - 6170 views - 05/13/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles

In working with development teams at organizations which are adopting Continuous Delivery,
I have found there can be friction over practices that many...
1 replies - 11692 views - 05/09/12 by Kief Morris in Articles

Since I started my career, redundancy has been featured in almost
every deployment discussion. The general best practice is to add an
additional element...
0 replies - 6912 views - 05/03/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles