Category: DevOps

As defined by the DevOps Institute, DevOps is a culture and mindset shift which prescribes the union of people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to end-users. The contraction of “Dev” and “Ops” refers to replacing siloed Development and Operations to create multidisciplinary teams that now work together with shared and efficient […]

A major goal of DevOps is to improve value by reducing lead times and reducing bottlenecks in software value streams. The winning method for identifying those bottlenecks is called Value Stream Mapping. In my SlideShare “Value Stream Mapping for DevOps” I illustrate a simple approach to conduct Value-Stream Mapping for DevOps value streams. Easy-to-use templates […]

DevSecOps practices are essential to deliver software safely and securely within DevOps value streams. To get the maximum security protection from DevSecOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes, and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s practices for DevSecOps and determine a strategy […]

Cyber security must be an integral part of software development and deployment. I’ve said that for years of teaching Learning Tree’s Introduction to Cyber Security, and now there is a design philosophy to help make that happen. DevSecOps is an enhancement to the popular DevOps philosophy and methodology to integrate proper security practices into the […]