Forrester IT

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Happy holidays from the DevOps Theme Team! Our merry band of Forrester analysts covering enterprise architecture, infrastructure, application development, application security, and technology strategy meets periodically to share research, debate trends, and dive into breaking news.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 11, 2021

Change management has continued to be a hot topic on social media and customer inquiry. As a process symbolizing traditional IT service management and the ITIL framework, it’s under increasing pressure to modernize in response to Agile and DevOps trends.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

So, we issued our 2020 DevOps predictions. Here are some of the additional trends Forrester is tracking in DevOps for 2020: The end of plan/build/run and stage gates. We’ve governed and managed IT for decades on the plan/build/run operating model, but […].

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 8, 2023

DevOps engineers have much to offer their organizations beyond developing CI/CD pipelines, configuring infrastructure as code, enabling AIOps capabilities, and other engineering practices that align with dev and ops objectives. If you’re an ambitious DevOps engineer, I’ve already published a career checklist to help you roadmap learning

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 7, 2023

Over the next few years, we’ll see a seismic shift in how devops organizations, agile development teams, site reliability engineers, and IT Ops will achieve an increasingly complex mission.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Two weeks ago, we chatted about how to become a Digital Trailblazer, and this past week we discussed DevOps in SMBs and nontech companies. We typically meet on Fridays at 11am ET and discuss a selected topic on leading digital transformation.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The born-digital "unicorn" companies such as Etsy, Google and Netflix, are pioneers of modern DevOps, but BT leaders at companies of all ages, sizes, and types are now eagerly pursuing the same principles. [i] i] The pressure for speed and quality is DevOps becoming pivotal for all organizations. Read more Categories: Agile.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The DevOps ecosystem of today is becoming increasingly more complex. As development teams grapple with the challenge of modernizing their DevOps toolchains, a number of concerns and challenges have followed closely behind. Chief among those challenges? What’s the state of DevSecOps today?

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Developing CI/CD pipelines, deploying infrastructure as code, leveraging git to manage source code, and choosing between containers, PaaS, and serverless infrastructure are established devops best practices.

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Forrester IT

MAY 20, 2017

In an era where velocity and agility are driving technology management organizations over simple cost reduction, every business must constantly evolve to drive business differentiation. DevOps is a powerful approach available to the CIO to drive velocity and agility, supporting the innovation required to drive business transformation.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 15, 2021

Feature management and experimentation tools assist agile-plus-DevOps teams in achieving progressive delivery. Read more about our recent evaluation of these tools.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2024

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 10, 2017

DevOps is one of the most powerful weapons that CIOs have in their arsenal. DevOps unites the entire enterprise in delivering business transformation with superior customer experience. In order to unlock the promise of DevOps, CIOs must lead the call for cultural change. DevOps has become this imperative, and CIOs must act now.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

There’s no doubt that DevOps has helped many IT organizations achieve their goal of delivering applications and services faster and better than traditional software development processes. It’s the CIOs responsibility to ensure that development teams aren’t intentionally or unintentionally straying off the DevOps path.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 21, 2022

I just got back from the DevOps Enterprise Summit, which, as usual, was one of the best conferences ever. Product and platform management were hot topics there, as they’ve been for the last few years. Today, I want to talk about platforms; in particular, there’s been a bit of a flurry lately about “platform engineering.” […].

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TM Forum

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

DevOps principles can help communications service providers (CSPs) evolve from a highly architected and reliable, yet fixed environment to new ways of cross-functional collaboration – but only if they are willing to embrace significant cultural change. DevOps is as much about culture as it is about processes and tools.

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Flexagon

JUNE 18, 2021

But when it comes to automating deployments to your environments, with complete visibility, rich property management, and fully automated options, you need a good enterprise DevOps tool. FlexDeploy’s solution for MuleSoft bridges all these gaps and provides a complete DevOps solution.

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Flexagon

AUGUST 25, 2021

The following is a summary of the information covered in the webinar: DevOps for Agile Project and Service Management. The Challenge of Agile Project and Service Management Agile project management and service management play critical roles in managing, delivering, and auditing changes across the software delivery pipeline.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 8, 2024

Should product managers and product owners have an equivalent responsibility to define a business value metric, use the metric for prioritization, and be held accountable for actual business value delivered versus

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 5, 2021

Incident management is not just the responsibility of IT Ops teams. DevOps teams aren’t the only ones responsible for fixing defects or reducing technical debt, and SREs aren’t the only ones who pursue performance and reliability improvements, and infosec teams aren’t the only ones concerned about security vulnerabilities.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 27, 2021

In my view, it’s emerged as the primary integrated operating model response encompassing agile, DevOps, and cloud. We’ve been researching the rise of product-centricity for some time now at Forrester.

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Forrester IT

JULY 20, 2020

Using value stream management (VSM) tools, AD&D leaders gain better insight into their organization’s processes […]. Application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders focusing on velocity and cadence are finding there’s more to software delivery than going fast.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 9, 2020

Agile without DevOps can lead to conflict where agile teams want to deploy frequently but are slowed down by operations that preserve reliability over speed. DevOps without agile leads to teams focusing on systems, automation, and technology first and often at the detriment of capabilities and features required by customers and end-users.

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Forrester IT

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Value Stream Management is not value stream mapping and it’s not a DevOps tool, but it plays a crucial role in helping teams optimize software delivery and tracking value across their software delivery life cycle, even when a team is not operating in a “DevOps” mode.

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Information Week

JUNE 9, 2020

The pandemic has many DevOps teams working from home. Here's how to help your team succeed under what may be very different circumstances.

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Tech Republic

APRIL 29, 2022

Ansible and Chef are configuration management (CM) tools designed for system administrators and DevOps professionals. The post Ansible vs Chef: Compare DevOps Tools appeared first on TechRepublic. Compare their features to determine which one will suit your team’s needs and expectations.

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Tech Republic Data Center

JUNE 11, 2021

DevOps revolutionized how we managed servers, and HashiCorp's Terraform promises to do the same for multicloud installations.

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Computer Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2017

IT leaders may find themselves unlikely to succeed by promising senior management DevOps-induced cost savings, according to PuppetConf panel

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Information Week

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As a concept, DevOps is designed to help with risk management, but when you are launching a DevOps initiative, risk management techniques come in handy.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 3, 2021

If you want to be unpopular with an Agile or DevOps team, tell them “you need to use the shared service.” ” Shared services have a well deserved reputation for bureaucracy, one-size-fits-all standards, long lead times, and high transaction costs. Shared services per se are not the problem.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 8, 2017

Change Management is a hot topic lately on my social media channels. As a process symbolizing traditional IT service management and the ITIL framework, it's under increasing pressure to modernize in response to Agile and DevOps trends. ITIL service management. change management. collaboration.

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Tech Republic

APRIL 22, 2022

When it comes to project management tools for DevOps, both Jira and Microsoft Azure DevOps are two of the most popular options. We’ll take a look at Azure DevOps and Jira and examine the tools’ similarities and differences to help you decide which software may be right for you.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I ask this question to agile leaders working with five or more teams: What boundaries and empowerments do you set for your self-organizing teams? . More specifically, are their agile teams free to choose their own tools and technologies? Can the scrum masters lead agile backlogs the way that worked for them at one of their previous jobs?

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Flexagon

MARCH 9, 2023

More and more companies adopt DevOps every day to improve their output and better their internal communications. DevOps is now seen as a necessity for organizations to adopt in a fast-paced market that continues to emphasize rapid-fire, high-quality product development and release—and for good reason. Why do you want to use DevOps?

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Seattle-area startup Esper just raised a second round of investment in less than six months to support growth of its software that helps companies manage fleets of tablets and smartphones. Founded in 2018 by MIcrosoft vets, Esper is a DevOps platform for customers that manage fleets of company-owned Android devices.

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Flexagon

MARCH 20, 2023

Enhancing your DevOps pipeline is a crucial part of optimizing the IT lifecycle. At the latest Oracle CloudWorld, Flexagon shared its FlexDeploy platform for DevOps, which supports Oracle EBS and Salesforce. Once you master these essential processes, you’ll be ready to incorporate DevOps and DevSecOps principles more widely.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

DevOps may have missed a key alignment between Dev and Ops responsibilities and ways of working. DevOps aims to help IT organizations align the speed and innovation coming from agile development teams with the performance, reliability, and security sought after by Ops.

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