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July 22, 2012  8:30 PM

The IT Operations Development Disconnect



Posted by: Beth Cohen
Agile Methodologies, application development, business innovation, business IT, cloud application development, Cloud Business strategy, cloud development platforms, Cloud operations, Cloud portfolio management, IT consultant

Question:  With all the talk of how effective DevOps is, why is it not more widely used as an IT organizational methodology? On paper, the concept of the development and operations part of an IT organization working in concert is wonderful.  In fairness when...

June 6, 2011  2:00 AM

Taking Business to the Clouds – Getting out of the Operations Ghetto



Posted by: Beth Cohen
Agile Methodologies, Business Value, Cloud Business strategy, cloud computing, Cloud Strategy, enterprise cloud services, IT business alignment, IT service delivery models, IT services

Question: Recently there has been a big push to develop private cloud computing services for the enterprise.  How can IT management really to take advantage of the benefits and avoid the hype? It is official.  Cloud computing is finally mainstream enough to...


September 3, 2009  4:00 PM

Agile – The next big thing?



Posted by: Beth Cohen
Agile Methodologies, Business Value, IT Innovation, Scrum, Software development

Question:  What is behind claims that agile methodologies can increase software development productivity 10-100 times over traditional approaches?  Is this for real? I just spent a week with a wildly enthusiastic international crowd of 1400 agilists...


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