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DevOps Enterprise Adoption at Hearst Business Media with Pauly Comtois

Following our series of live interviews on DevOps Enterprise adoption, InfoQ has reached out to other technical leaders in large organizations to ask them about their DevOps initiatives. What challenges have they faced? Which improvements have they seen? What lies ahead? On this occasion we're talking with Pauly Comtois, Vice President of DevOps at Hearst Business Media.

Manuel Pais
on Mar 28, 2016
Culture & Methods

Living Values: A Company Imbued with Spirit

Helen Walton interviews Places for People, this year’s winner of the Spark Award. By putting people at the heart of how the company operates, Places for People creates a highly innovative culture with an inspirational purpose that delivers outstanding business results.

Helen Walton
on Mar 17, 2016
DevOps

Faster, Smarter DevOps

Moving your release cadence from months to weeks is not just about learning Agile practices and getting some automation tools. It involves people, tooling and a transition plan. Derek Weeks discusses some of the benefits and approaches to getting there.

Derek Weeks
on Feb 18, 2016
Culture & Methods

The Agility Challenge

To be successful, a company needs to become an agile enterprise. In this article Dragan Jojic explores “the agility challenge”: A company where employees are able to sense and respond to external inputs without managers having to tell them what to do, know what they are trying to achieve, understand why, be able to decide by themselves how to best do it and genuinely care that it gets done.

Dragan Jojic
on Feb 04, 2016
DevOps

How the Bing Development Team Used Agile to Sprint Ahead

A look at how Microsoft's Bing development team has implemented agile and continuous delivery methods to vastly improve their development workflow. InfoQ interviews Craig Miller, Technical Adviser at Bing for an-depth look at how they did it and what was gained.

Jeff Martin
on Feb 01, 2016
DevOps

A Short Manual to Bring Change Successfully into Your Team

Leaders are responsible for many interactions and behaviors in a team. So if something is not going the way you want it, start looking at yourself and ask what is your role in this misconduct.

Sabine Wojcieszak
on Jan 31, 2016
Culture & Methods

Peer Feedback Loops: How to Contribute to a Culture of Continuous Improvement

This third article in a series on peer feedback loops explores how feedback can be used to encourage a culture of continuous improvement. It presents another three methods to do peer feedback and closes with some recommendations for getting started and going.

Siegfried Kaltenecker
on Dec 20, 2015
DevOps

“DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective” Book Review and Interview

Len Bass on the motivation for "DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective", what does looking at DevOps from an architectural perspective mean, DevOps education, microservices and more.

Manuel Pais
on Dec 18, 2015
DevOps

Interview series: DevOps Enterprise Adoption

InfoQ ran a series of interviews during the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, focusing on the DevOps transformations that many corporations are currently undertaking to improve not only their productivity and time to market, but also to increase engagement and collaboration between people and teams.

Manuel Pais
on Dec 16, 2015
The Pitfalls that You Should Always Avoid when Implementing Agile

Moving from traditional project management to agile is a paradigm shift. From push to pull systems from a control-and-command culture to a trust culture where authority is delegated. A good structure with some control mechanisms will most likely help you get the wanted results quicker. This article discusses the role that management plays in organizations that have decided to adopt agile.

Annette Vendelbo
on Jun 27, 2015
Q&A with Paul Swartout on the Evolution of Continuous Delivery and DevOps

InfoQ reached out to "Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart Guide" book author Paul Swartout in order to find out what have been the major changes in this space (and in the book) in the last couple of years. Swartout shares his view on cultural challenges to DevOps adoption and how the rise of mobile and microservices impacts Continuous Delivery approaches, among other topics.

Manuel Pais
on Jun 26, 2015
Why We Fail to Change: Understanding Practices, Principles, and Values Is a Solution

There’s no reward for being a Scrum or kanban shop if we are not delivering value to customers. We see virtually no impact of agile or lean on the bottom line of success rates of improvement initiatives, because organizations often look for recipes. We need to change our mindset, and focus on the principles that people follow and values they share and the bigger whole: organizational culture.

Pawel Brodzinski
on Jun 01, 2015