ayasin Oct 13, 2015 · 8 min read This article generated a lot of passion, before responding please read my response to critics . You’ve been lied to by the same people that have always lied to you. Agile is terrible. Scrum is worse. Before I begin, let me get Agile’s straw man out of the way: No…

Later today, the chief marketing officers of Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Lenovo, and HP will gather to host a webcast introducing a major new advertising campaign for the PC. It will mark the first time that the five biggest names in the PC industry have come together around a single, unified message to…

There’s been a lot of talk about containers lately, especially in the VMware space. At VMworld 2015, we heard more about Project Photon and vSphere Integrated Containers. While these are both great advancements in the container space, I think they can confuse people who are just starting with…

“ Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job .” That was how The Onion famously announced Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008. Rather than a feel-good story trumpeting the historic occasion, the satirical publication sarcastically detailed the economic and political mess Obama would inherit (and be…

Downloadable Resources Article (PDF-1MB) Over the past five years, Adobe Systems has remade itself as a cloud company. It no longer offers its publishing and design tools in the form of physical, shrink-wrapped products to be deployed at customers’ sites under a perpetuallicense—where customers pay…

Learn About Modern Apps with Docker at VMworld 2019 By The Docker team will be on the show floor at VMworld the week of August 25. We’ll be talking about the state of modern application development, how to accelerate innovation efforts, and the role containerization and Docker play in powering these…

Learn About Modern Apps with Docker at VMworld 2019 By The Docker team will be on the show floor at VMworld the week of August 25. We’ll be talking about the state of modern application development, how to accelerate innovation efforts, and the role containerization and Docker play in powering these…

Sam Preston August 19, 2019 11:00 AM Fast DNS: Zone Apex Mapping & DNSSEC Introduction Along with its DDoS resilience and impressive global footprint, Fast DNS affords zone administrators additional technical flexibility and implementation options. One example is Zone Apex Mapping (ZAM) -- a feature…

Daniel Jagielski Written on 2 July 2015 In this article I will compare these two frameworks from my team’s needs perspective. You can treat it as an opinionated guide on how to choose between them when you have similar requirements. About the project The SPiD team, that I am currently working for,…

Computing LATEST Leadership How Network Rail CIO Aidan Hancock is using data science to speed up your commute How do you make trains run on time? It turns out you use a mixture of data science, analytics and cloud, according to Hancock 20 Aug Leadership Shortlist announced for UK IT Industry Awards…

Microservices provide benefits… Strong Module Boundaries: Microservices reinforce modular structure, which is particularly important for larger teams. Independent Deployment: Simple services are easier to deploy, and since they are autonomous, are less likely to cause system failures when they go…

As part of my job at DeferPanic , I spend a lot of time talking to a lot of gophers throughout the world. Chennai, Tel Aviv, Sydney, London, Berlin, New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Toronto — you name it, there are probably gophers coding near you. What’s interesting is that when I talk to…

Last summer, Matthew Bellows was handed a startup’s PR dream: A sit-down with The New York Times . But he didn’t talk about how his company Yesware , the sales productivity software maker, had quickly attracted thousands of enterprise users. He touted not a single product feature. Instead, Bellows…

Virtualization has been a key driver behind every major trend in software, from search to social networks to SaaS, over the past decade. In fact, most of the applications we use — and cloud computing as we know it today — would not have been possible without the server utilization and cost savings…

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For Eric Maland, the whole thing goes back to that San Francisco wedding. Mikey wasn’t there—well, wait, actually, Mikey was there. But Eric didn’t meet him at that point. Eric met some other folks at the wedding who told him they were doing some fix-it stuff in Washington, and it sounded kind of…

In the early days, we used to apply one size fits all methodology because we didn't know better (see figure 1, which is a system provided in a map form ). We used to yo-yo between methods but in 2002, most of us in the open source world had gone "all agile" whilst the enterprise was mainly "all…

How will technology innovation best be realized in today's large enterprise? That's the question on IT leader's minds in 2015 as digital transformation moves to or near the top of the corporate priority list, according to major executive surveys by MIT and elsewhere. The challenge of course, is that…

Dominik Maximini researched the cultural aspects of organizations that are using Scrum. He published the findings of his research, together with principles for implementing Scrum and suggestions on how to apply these principles and a case study of a Scrum transformation, in the book The Scrum…

“Imagine you’re sitting across from a reporter at lunch. You’re telling them what you do, your story, why they should care about your product. You have to convince this reporter to not only write about you, but that what you’re doing matters. That you’re going to be successful.” This is Caryn…

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DevOps was emerging and I covered it extensively in the 2nd edition; it was clearly going to be transformative. What was less clear was the impact that Agile, Lean and DevOps would have on the practices of enterprise IT. This transformation of enterprise IT will be a primary theme of the third…

International Business Machines CIO Jeff Smith wants to practice Agile software development and project management at scale, and by scale, he means a company with a headcount that rivals that of Miami. Mr. Smith arrived at IBM during the middle of 2014, after serving as CEO of Suncorp Business…

Ok, We Get it, Docker’s Great. But what for? by Richard Watson | May 1, 2015 | 4 Comments By now, we’ve all heard “Docker, Docker, Docker” coming from every available channel. Ok, we get it, Docker’s great. But what can you use it for? I’m not much of a detective writer, so I’m going to spoil the…

26 May 2014 2 notes Comments complexsystems cybernetics innovation © 2014 Jeff Sussna, Ingineering.IT Suddenly failure is all the rage. Innumerable blog posts tells us failure is good, failure is necessary, failure should be incented, Google developed all of its best applications from failures, and…

If you are reading this you don’t need to be directed to an article explaining what happened: Bloomberg said that (somehow) it leaked that Salesforce had retained investment bankers to help them evaluate a potential acquisition or buyout. Of course, this meant it was open season for everyone to add…

OpenStack is the industry's most successful private cloud technology. That may not be enough. As Gartner analyst Alan Waite posits, there are a limited number of use cases for which OpenStack actually makes sense. This isn't to suggest that OpenStack is DOA, but rather that the OpenStack community…

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LAS VEGAS -- EMC CEO Joe Tucci used EMC World 2015 to renew his pitch to keep the EMC Federation together, saying all of its pieces are required to take customers where they want to go today -- the cloud. Tucci and his EMC lieutenants -- CEOs David Goulden of EMC Information Infrastructure…

This particular op-ed has the danger of revealing what a former editor of mine liked to call “inside baseball.” Nobody reads that, he said. Over three decades, I’ve collected a huge, wide-ranging, awe-inspiring list of the topics which, as I’ve been told by people sitting opposite the business end…

Last week, the Wall Street Journal wrote up a story on how Humana kickstarted its transformation to being a technology company right in downtown Louisville. Spurred by a desire to help its 13.8 million insured member base build healthier lives by putting healthcare advice directly in their hands…

The list of the fastest-growing mobile apps includes many familiar and unsurprising names, such as Uber, Tinder and Nike ( NKE ). But topping the hipster favorites? Kohl's ( KSS ), the discount department store chain based in Menomonee Falls, Wis., which increased its user base by almost 800% after…

Om Malik: I’ve been reading about you, and I have been fascinated by your progress and more importantly how you have conducted your business. Where did you find the inspiration to follow this path? Brunello Cucinelli: From the teary eyes of my father. When we were living in the countryside, the…

If you want to ignite a firestorm among modern information technology people, just ask which cloud provider is number one among large corporate customers. Amazon Web Services, born in 2006, is by almost any count, the dominant player in overall market share. But IBM, which is, oh, about 10 times as…

Shutterstock Two years ago when Frank Macreery started Aptible to help companies host sensitive healthcare data in the cloud, as CTO he decided that containers would play a pivotal role in the company’s operations. “Running our service just on top of VMs (virtual machines) would be ugly,” he says.…

LONDON — The past few months have been full of change at The Economist. In January, Zanny Minton Beddoes was appointed the magazine’s new editor after her predecessor, John Micklethwait , left for Bloomberg. In November, The Economist launched Espresso , a daily news digest delivered via email or a…