Nearly every organization dreads the “S-word,” but security should be something we embrace early instead of avoiding until the last minute. It’s strange that we would delay something that could derail our entire application release to the very end when we know we will have no time to address it. Fear of the unknown and fear of failure are […]
On our current project, we are using a JBoss application server to host the services that the application needs to function. This application server takes about 1.5 minutes to start. This means that after a developer makes a change to the code, they must wait at least this long (in addition to the amount of […]
Change is never easy. Change is even harder when you’re unsure whether your DevOps implementation is changing your team/application/organization for the better or worse. One of the biggest mistakes organizations make when adopting sweeping process or technology changes is a failing to identify measures to determine whether they are trending in a positive direction and when they […]
In today’s ever-connected technological landscape, cyber security is operating in an environment of unpredictability, accelerated technology change, and threat complexity. All too often, cyber responses are based on cumbersome, slower methodologies that miss critical elements to successfully respond to cyber security threats. Cybersecurity programs are driven primarily by a “Castle Model” of defense – focused […]
Agile has increasingly become the standard way software development organizations deliver software. According to a recent TechBeachon survey, most organizations lean toward agile or purely rely on it for their software delivery. For a majority of government projects, waterfall methodologies continue to be heavily used with large amounts of process governance and controls. While the government […]
DevOps and Agile transformations, or any cultural shift for that matter, almost certainly needs a champion to help evangelize for change and to clear the inevitable road blocks. You can’t do it that way because we’ve always done it another way? Call the Champion to get us permission to try something different this time. There’s […]
Gene Gotimer just published an article at Techwell Insights discussing how to choose what testing to do in your pipeline and when. Adapting the agile principle of small incremental changes and applying it to rounds of testing, the goal is to do just enough testing at each stage to give you confidence that the next […]
Bringing in DevOps to an organization means making some changes to the culture and structure of teams and the organization. These changes are often disruptive and frequently meet with some resistance from leadership, teams, and individuals. A successful DevOps team is cross-functional, with members that represent the business, development, quality assurance, operations, and anyone else […]
Quality feedback is essential to any software delivery project and the best way to improve feedback is to reduce the developer feedback cycle and make any (and every) result transparent to the project, its members and its stakeholders. You should continue to mesure and broadcast results through communication mechanisms commonly referred to as “information radiators.” […]
I am currently working on a project in which we are helping a company transition to using the agile software development methodology. As part of this transition to agile we set up Jira, Confluence, and Zephyr — Jira is used for managing work (epics, user stories, requirements, and test cases), Confluence is a wiki used for managing […]
