How service virtualization can reduce the number of environments
After having worked with one of the largest South African banks recently to roll out Service Virtualization, it was really interesting to see how they operate....
How to embark on a successful DevOps programme
Once the big decision has been made to go for DevOps in your organization (or at least give it a go), what do you do next? Below are my suggestions for things which should be considered at t...
How to enjoy the DevOps Ripple Effect
Following on from my previous post entitled 7 Steps to Start your DevOps Initiative, I thought I’d talk a bit about DevOps in the long term. Something which can easily be missed when on the...
Justifying the investment of test automation and service virtualization
Being in software testing for many years now, I feel that one thing that has never changed is IT managers always being in a position to justify the investment of test automation or any techn...
Seven Steps to Start Your DevOps Initiative – Part 2
This blog follows on from last week’s Seven Steps to Start Your DevOps Initiative – part 1. The paper “Seven Steps to Start Your DevOps Initiative” by Ronni Colville (2014) lists 7 key recom...
Seven Steps to Start Your DevOps Initiative – Part 1
I attended a DevOps Connect breakfast briefing at The Royal Exchange on Wednesday 4th February 2015. The briefing, run by Ranger4 and DevOps.com, was centred around a Gartner paper released...