ITIL V4 Change Management in 2019: Everything You Need to Know
Change. Love it or hate it—and let’s be honest, most of us hate it—it will always be a big part of working in IT. IT service…
Continuous Deployment: How It Fits in Your Delivery
As a leader within your organization, you’re excited about the possibilities DevOps provides your team. Faster, more impactful changes mean more direct value delivered to your…
The Scrum Alliance: What It Is and Why It Matters
Gone are the days when traditional project management helped a company thrive. There was a time when project managers had to create a fixed scope for…
Behavior-Driven Development: A Comprehensive Intro and Guide
Behavior-driven development (BDD) is several things: a language for defining the behavior of an application; a collaboration tool for engineers, testers, and product managers; and a…
Serverless: What and Why? A Complete Guide for IT Leaders
Has your laptop, phone, or projector ever stopped working when you needed it most? If so, you aren’t alone. It’s happened to me more times than…
Hybrid Cloud: A Complete Intro and Guide for IT Leadership
The use of the cloud is inevitable for most companies because cloud computing is necessary for a company that wants to keep up to date with…
Containerization: A Definition and Best Practices Guide
There are many ways for operations teams to approach hardware management. Some build dedicated hardware for different applications within their stack. Some use virtualization to simplify…
Understanding Microservices and Their Impact on Companies
“If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up today as a software and analytics company.” This is a…
How Lean and Agile Relate and How You Can Win by Using Both
We often consider lean and agile to be two different methodologies to writing software. However, if we take the principles of lean to heart, we end…
Scaled Agile Framework Version 4.6: What Is It and Should You Adopt It?
In 2010, leaders of forward-thinking enterprises began asking themselves how they could adopt software development methodologies such as lean, kanban, and scrum on a larger scale….
Using a Burndown Chart for Effective Project Forecasting
Agile can come with a lot of confusing words and concepts. We sometimes find ourselves surrounded by odd-sounding words like story points, velocity, WIP, Kanban, and…
Infrastructure as Code: What Is It, and Why Should My Engineers Care?
For decades, managing a server or two was a full-time job. System administrators would carefully curate their critical systems and ensure the business ran smoothly by…