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| devops vs release management: Embracing DevOps Release Management Joel Kruger, 2024-04-12 Unlock the power of DevOps release management to elevate your software development with early quality checks, testing, automation, and QA integration, reshaping your software delivery life cycle for excellence Key Features Understand the SDLC and the most popular release management models Learn what makes DevOps unique and how CI/CD pipelines enforce good DevOps release management Drive a culture-driven release management initiative in your organization that breaks down silos Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionAt the core of software development lies the imperative of swiftly and reliably releasing new features and updates, emphasizing the vital role of release management in the DevOps methodology. Discover how software development teams can elevate their processes by incorporating quality checks and shifting left, moving testing, automation, and QA procedures much earlier into the SDLC. However, release management is still tasked with application monitoring, overseeing infrastructure components, and managing change orders and schedules. This book offers insights into the essence of DevOps Release Management, illuminating its nuances and providing basic strategies for its implementation. You’ll explore how CI/CD pipelines enforce good DevOps release management and master techniques to optimize them. You’ll also learn how to foster a culture of cross-functional product development that minimizes waste and maximizes value to the customer. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of DevOps release management, its benefits, and practical implementation strategies. Equipped with this knowledge, you’ll be able to assess your own development processes and identify areas for improvement, ultimately leading to increased efficiency, collaboration, and value creation.What you will learn Discover the significance and anatomy of the SDLC Understand the history of release management and how various models work Grasp DevOps release management and basic strategies to implement it Construct optimized CI/CD pipelines capable of early issue detection Implement the shift-left approach to enhance value delivery to customers at record speed Foster a culture of cross-functional collaboration in your team Make DevOps release management pragmatic and accessible Overcome common pitfalls in DevOps release management Who this book is for This book is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to DevOps release management, but it's also valuable for DevOps engineers and release managers looking to enhance their skills and knowledge. If you’re looking to adopt key practices to shift left, this book will enable you to build high-quality products in record time. |
| devops vs release management: Site Reliability Engineering Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, 2016-03-23 The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems? In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient—lessons directly applicable to your organization. This book is divided into four sections: Introduction—Learn what site reliability engineering is and why it differs from conventional IT industry practices Principles—Examine the patterns, behaviors, and areas of concern that influence the work of a site reliability engineer (SRE) Practices—Understand the theory and practice of an SRE’s day-to-day work: building and operating large distributed computing systems Management—Explore Google's best practices for training, communication, and meetings that your organization can use |
| devops vs release management: Refactoring to Patterns Joshua Kerievsky, 2005 Kerievsky lays the foundation for maximizing the use of design patterns by helping the reader view them in the context of refactorings. He ties together two of the most popular methods in software engineering today--refactoring and design patterns--as he helps the experienced developer create more robust software. |
| devops vs release management: The DevOps Handbook Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, 2016-10-06 Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices. More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater―whether it's the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud. And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Etsy, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying code into production hundreds, or even thousands, of times per day. Following in the footsteps of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook shows leaders how to replicate these incredible outcomes, by showing how to integrate Product Management, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Information Security to elevate your company and win in the marketplace. |
| devops vs release management: DevOps For Dummies Emily Freeman, 2019-08-20 Develop faster with DevOps DevOps embraces a culture of unifying the creation and distribution of technology in a way that allows for faster release cycles and more resource-efficient product updating. DevOps For Dummies provides a guidebook for those on the development or operations side in need of a primer on this way of working. Inside, DevOps evangelist Emily Freeman provides a roadmap for adopting the management and technology tools, as well as the culture changes, needed to dive head-first into DevOps. Identify your organization’s needs Create a DevOps framework Change your organizational structure Manage projects in the DevOps world DevOps For Dummies is essential reading for developers and operations professionals in the early stages of DevOps adoption. |
| devops vs release management: Accelerate Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim, 2018-03-27 Winner of the Shingo Publication Award Accelerate your organization to win in the marketplace. How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for readers to apply in their own organizations. Readers will discover how to measure the performance of their teams, and what capabilities they should invest in to drive higher performance. This book is ideal for management at every level. |
| devops vs release management: DevOps for the Modern Enterprise Mirco Hering, 2018-04-03 Many organizations are facing the uphill battle of modernizing their legacy IT infrastructure. Most have evolved over the years by taking lessons from traditional or legacy manufacturing: creating a production process that puts the emphasis on the process instead of the people performing the tasks, allowing the organization to treat people like resources to try to achieve high-quality outcomes. But those practices and ideas are failing modern IT, where collaboration and creativeness are required to achieve high-performing, high-quality success. Mirco Hering, a thought leader in managing IT within legacy organizations, lays out a roadmap to success for IT managers, showing them how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, and how to put the right technology in the driver's seat to propel their organization to success. But just having the right methods and tools will not magically transform an organization; the cultural change that is the hardest is also the most impactful. Using principles from Agile, Lean, and DevOps as well as first-hand examples from the enterprise world, Hering addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments. |
| devops vs release management: Reinventing ITIL® in the Age of DevOps Abhinav Krishna Kaiser, 2018-12-12 Delve into the principles of ITIL® and DevOps and examine the similarities and differences. This book re-engineers the ITIL framework to work in DevOps projects without changing its meaning and its original objectives, making it fit for purpose for use in DevOps projects. Reinventing ITIL® in the Age of DevOpsshows you the relevance of ITIL since the emergence of DevOps and puts a unique spin on the ITIL service management framework. Along the way you will see that ITIL is a mature service management framework and years of maturity will be lost if it’s made invalid. The ideas, recommendations, and solutions provided in Reinventing ITIL in the Age of DevOps can be leveraged in order to readily develop solutions or create proposals for clients. The ideas in this book can be further expanded to deliver seamless services to DevOps projects. What You Will LearnDiscover the basics of ITIL and DevOps Compare ITIL and DevOps Understand the structure of a DevOps organization and adapt the ITIL roles to this structure Re-engineer ITIL for DevOps projects Implement major processes such as incident management, configuration management, and change management processes in DevOps projects Automate activities within processes Who This Book Is For Consultants, business analysts, administrators, and project managers who are looking for more information about Dynamics 365. |
| devops vs release management: Release It! Michael T. Nygard, 2018-01-08 A single dramatic software failure can cost a company millions of dollars - but can be avoided with simple changes to design and architecture. This new edition of the best-selling industry standard shows you how to create systems that run longer, with fewer failures, and recover better when bad things happen. New coverage includes DevOps, microservices, and cloud-native architecture. Stability antipatterns have grown to include systemic problems in large-scale systems. This is a must-have pragmatic guide to engineering for production systems. If you're a software developer, and you don't want to get alerts every night for the rest of your life, help is here. With a combination of case studies about huge losses - lost revenue, lost reputation, lost time, lost opportunity - and practical, down-to-earth advice that was all gained through painful experience, this book helps you avoid the pitfalls that cost companies millions of dollars in downtime and reputation. Eighty percent of project life-cycle cost is in production, yet few books address this topic. This updated edition deals with the production of today's systems - larger, more complex, and heavily virtualized - and includes information on chaos engineering, the discipline of applying randomness and deliberate stress to reveal systematic problems. Build systems that survive the real world, avoid downtime, implement zero-downtime upgrades and continuous delivery, and make cloud-native applications resilient. Examine ways to architect, design, and build software - particularly distributed systems - that stands up to the typhoon winds of a flash mob, a Slashdotting, or a link on Reddit. Take a hard look at software that failed the test and find ways to make sure your software survives. To skip the pain and get the experience...get this book. |
| devops vs release management: An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups Piaw Na, 2010 This book covers topics of interest to anyone who wants to work at startups:1. How do you get a job at a startup?2. How do I choose which startups to talk to?3. How does one approach interviewing at a startup?4. Once an offer is pending, how do I negotiate compensation?5. Once at a startup, what should I do to maximize any gains from my stock options?Drawing from 17 years of work at various pre-IPO corporations in Silicon Valley, the author provides answers to the above questions, including extensive examples, case studies and detailed background. |
| devops vs release management: IOS App Distribution & Best Practices (First Edition) Pietro Rea, raywenderlich Tutorial Team, Keegan Rush, 2021-04-21 Sharing Apple Apps With Your Team, Testers & the World You'll learn how to sign up for Apple Developer Program, generate the various certificates needed, configure your app and submit an app to the App Store for approval, both manually and through automated processes through automated pipelines. You'll learn how to use Apple TestFlight to add internal and external testers and receive feedback and crash reports. iOS App Distribution starts with explaining hurdles everyone faces, such as code signing, provisioning profiles, and how to do manual releases. It'll then go into more advanced topics, including distribution through TestFlight, build customization, automation, and continuous integration. Who This Book Is For This book is for beginner to experienced developers who want to know the best and most common workflow to release an app to the App store, as well as limiting frustration by troubleshooting and debugging common issues and problems associated with distributing apps. Topics Covered in iOS App Distribution & Best Practices App Store quick start: Your quickest way from no account to the App Store. Provisioning, code signing & entitlements: In-depth explanation of what they are, why you need them, and how they work. Distribution channels & TestFlight: Learn different ways of distributing your app, within an enterprise, with internal or external testers. App Store Connect: Learn about the Apple review process, what are the guidelines, what can go wrong and how to dispute them. Build customizations: Learn the ins and outs of configuring Xcode and build configurations. Build automation: Automate builds, build servers, and learn about tools such as fastlane. Continuous integration: Build your own CI pipeline to code, build, test, release, and repeat! After reading this book, you'll take your app build process and distribution to the next level, automate most of its tedious processes, and have an easier time debugging obscure app submission problem |
| devops vs release management: DevOps Overture Shawn D Doyle, 2020-02-14 DevOps Overture is an introduction to DevOps processes and culture. With an overview of software development methodologies before DevOps and the problems associated with those systems. It then explains what DevOps is and how it resolves these problems. Finally, it offers advice for a career in DevOps and warns of common pitfalls to avoid. |
| devops vs release management: Next Gen DevOps Grant Smith, 2019-09-27 Next Gen DevOps is a step-by-step guide helping managers and executives successfully transition to DevOps and SRE. Supported by experiences gained in a range of organisations, large and small the book and framework of the same name, can help anyone structure their transformation project. |
| devops vs release management: Complete Guide to Digital Project Management Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar, 2018-02-19 Get a 360-degree view of digital project management. Learn proven best practices from case studies and real-world scenarios. A variety of project management tools, templates, models, and frameworks are covered. This book provides an in-depth view of digital project management from initiation to execution to monitoring and maintenance. Covering end-to-end topics from pre-sales to post-production, the book explores project management from various dimensions. Each core concept is complemented by case studies and real-world scenarios. The Complete Guide to Digital Project Management provides valuable tools for your use such as: Frameworks: governance, quality, knowledge transfer, root cause analysis, digital product evaluation, digital consulting, estimation Templates: estimation, staffing, resource induction, RACI Models: governance, estimation, pricing, digital maturity continuous execution, earned value management and effort forecast Metrics: project management, quality What You’ll Learn Study best practices and failure scenarios in digital projects, including common challenges, recurring problem themes, and leading indicators of project failures Explore an in-depth discussion of topics related to project quality and project governance Understand Agile and Scrum practices for Agile execution See how to apply Quality Management in digital projects, including a quality strategy, a quality framework, achieving quality in various project phases, and quality best practices Be able to use proven metrics and KPIs to track, monitor, and measure project performance Discover upcoming trends and innovations in digital project management Read more than 20 real-world scenarios in digital project management with proven best practices to handle the scenarios, and a chapter on a digital transformation case study Who This Book Is For Software project managers, software program managers, account managers, software architects, lead developers, and digital enthusiasts |
| devops vs release management: ITIL® 4 Foundation Courseware - English Van Haren Learning Solutions a.o., 2019-02-28 Besides the ITIL® 4 Foundation Courseware - English (ISBN: 978 94 018 0394 6) publication you are advised to obtain the ITIL® 4 - A Pocket Guide (ISBN: 978 94 018 0439 4). The course is designed as an introduction to ITIL 4 and enables you to understand a new way to look at IT Service Management through a Service Value System (SVS). ITIL 4 provides an end-to-end picture of what means to contribute to business value, and also integrates concepts from models such as Lean IT, Agile and DevOps. This course is for those who are involved in the delivery of IT services and need an understanding of best practice in IT Service Management. Student must pass a 60 minute, 40 question closed book multiple choice, examination with a passing score of 65% in order to receive this certification. You can write the exam at any time and at any place after the course. The test is done via your own computer proctored via webcam. Candidates wishing to be trained and pass the exam for this qualification would be recommended to have a general awareness of IT and appreciation of their own business environment. You’ll learn: • Understand the key concepts of service management • Understand how the ITIL guiding principles can help an organization adopt and adapt service management • Understand the four dimensions of service management • Understand the purpose and components of the ITIL service value system • Understand the activities of the service value chain, and how they interconnect • Know the purpose and key terms of 18 ITIL practices • Understand 7 ITIL practices ITIL® is a registered trade mark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved. This product is only for courseware partners, affiliates or designated students. Any course should always include an exam. |
| devops vs release management: UiPath Administration and Support Guide Arun Kumar Asokan, 2022-09-23 Practical explanations that go beyond UiPath official documentation to guide new UiPath support professionals to excel in their workplace Key FeaturesGet a deep understanding of practical aspects of the UiPath support and administration roleExplore real-world UiPath support and administration use casesDetails best practices and tips for UiPath support and administration professionalsBook Description UiPath administration, support, maintenance, monitoring, and deployment activities are mandatory and more challenging than developing bots. This is a major issue for many firms that are looking to scale their RPA programs. This book will help in training new UiPath users/resources involved in administration and support tasks to address existing skill gaps in RPA market. The book starts with an introduction to the UiPath Platform. You'll learn how to set up UiPath Platform administration, support, monitoring, reporting, deployment, and maintenance. After that, you'll cover advanced topics, such as, using the orchestrator API for support operations, security, and risk management. In addition to this, best practices for each of the topics will be covered. By the end of this book, you will have the knowledge you need to work on the support and monitoring of UiPath programs of any size. What you will learnExplore the core UiPath Platform design and architectureUnderstand UiPath Platform support and administration conceptsGet to grips with real-world use cases of UiPath support, DevOps, and monitoringUnderstand UiPath maintenance and reportingDiscover best practices to enable UiPath operations scalingUnderstand the future trends in UiPath platform and support activitiesWho this book is for This book is for UiPath support professionals looking to gain a 360-degree perspective of how to perform UiPath support and administration activities and understand different components such as orchestrators, robots, support frameworks, and models. RPA developers will be able to learn UiPath support and administration to add value to their current developer role. RPA CoE leaders who want to set up or improve their UiPath support organization will also benefit from this UiPath book. |
| devops vs release management: Driving Digital Isaac Sacolick, 2017-08-24 Every organization makes plans for updating products, technologies, and business processes. But that’s not enough anymore for the twenty-first-century company. The race is now on for everyone to become a digital enterprise. For those individuals who have been charged with leading their company’s technology-driven change, the pressure is intense while the correct path forward unclear. Help has arrived! In Driving Digital, author Isaac Sacolick shares the lessons he’s learned over the years as he has successfully spearheaded multiple transformations and helped shape digital-business best practices. Readers no longer have to blindly trek through the mine field of their company’s digital transformation. In this thoroughly researched one-stop manual, learn how to: • Formulate a digital strategy • Transform business and IT practices • Align development and operations • Drive culture change • Bolster digital talent • Capture and track ROI • Develop innovative digital practices • Pilot emerging technologies • And more! Your company cannot avoid the digital disruption heading its way. The choice is yours: Will this mean the beginning of the end for your business, or will your digital practices be what catapults you into next-level success? |
| devops vs release management: The Phoenix Project Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford, 2018-02-06 ***Over a half-million sold! And available now, the Wall Street Journal Bestselling sequel The Unicorn Project*** “Every person involved in a failed IT project should be forced to read this book.”—TIM O'REILLY, Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media “The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives who are struggling with the growing complexity of IT.”—JIM WHITEHURST, President and CEO, Red Hat, Inc. Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on it's head, the 5th Anniversary Edition of The Phoenix Project continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution. In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook. Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced. With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with a manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited. In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again. “This book is a gripping read that captures brilliantly the dilemmas that face companies which depend on IT, and offers real-world solutions.”—JEZ HUMBLE, Co-author of Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise, Accelerate, and The DevOps Handbook |
| devops vs release management: ITAMOrg® Software Asset Management Specialist Courseware Jesper Østergaard, 2020-10-22 ITAMOrg® IT Software Asset Management Certifications is suitable for individuals wanting to demonstrate they have achieved sufficient understanding of how to apply and tailor the Software Asset Management practices. Changing business practices, the introduction of new technologies, combined with customer and stakeholder feedback led to the need for understanding Software Asset Management disciplines. The ITAMOrg guidance will be easier to navigate and understand the Software Asset Management practical in its approach. The Software Asset Management exam with a fundamental understanding of the SAM elements and equips the participant to focus on the practical skills to apply SAM practices. Key benefits: • ITAM can be successfully applied to any sized organisation, and professional role • ITAM leverages off the real-life expertise of the global ITAMOrg community, offering a overview of the ITAM disciplines and IT Asset areas to be controlled. • The exams highlight real world applications that equip professionals for success in IT Asset Management This Courseware is suited for the ITAMOrg® 2020 SAM exam. There is also a sample exam added of the ITAMOrg® 2020 Software Asset Management in case the participant prefers to refresh its knowledge. The Exam is delivered in English. |
| devops vs release management: Software Architecture with Spring 5.0 René Enríquez, Alberto Salazar, 2018-08-31 Discover how different software architectural models can help you solve problems, and learn best practices for the software development cycle Key Features Learn concepts related to software architecture and embrace them using the latest features of Spring 5 Discover architectural models and learn when to apply them Gain knowledge of architectural principles and how they can be used to provide accountability and rationale for architectural decisions Book Description Spring 5 and its ecosystem can be used to build robust architectures effectively. Software architecture is the underlying piece that helps us accomplish our business goals whilst supporting the features that a product demands. This book explains in detail how to choose the right architecture and apply best practices during your software development cycle to avoid technical debt and support every business requirement. Choosing the right architecture model to support your business requirements is one of the key decisions you need to take when a new product is being created from scratch or is being refactored to support new business demands. This book gives you insights into the most common architectural models and guides you when and where they can be used. During this journey, you’ll see cutting-edge technologies surrounding the Spring products, and understand how to use agile techniques such as DevOps and continuous delivery to take your software to production effectively. By the end of this book, you’ll not only know the ins and outs of Spring, but also be able to make critical design decisions that surpass your clients’ expectations. What you will learn Understand the key principles of software architecture Uncover the most common architectural models available Analyze scenarios where an architecture model should be used Implement agile techniques to take your software to production Secure the products you are working on Master tricks that will help you build high-performant applications Use cutting-edge technologies to build products Who this book is for If you’re an experienced Spring developer aspiring to become an architect of enterprise-grade applications, this book is for you. It’s also ideal for software architects who want to leverage Spring to create effective application blueprints. |
| devops vs release management: CTO.online Andre Buren, 2023-12-31 The role of CTO is evolving fast, thinking strategically about technology and business opportunities. As we navigate this new world, we face the challenge of harnessing the immense potential of new online technologies for our business. You will need to wear multiple hats, including innovator, business leader, and most of all change agent. In these exhilarating yet turbulent times, being a tech leader means having the vision to steer your ship through stormy seas of disruption and guide it towards the tranquil waters of progress. It requires the foresight to anticipate what lies ahead and the adaptability to embrace change. It calls for the audacity to take risks and the humility to learn from mistakes. CTO.online is your comprehensive guide covering all the expertise necessary for modern-day online tech leadership. It provides actionable guidance, advice, practical tips, and perspectives from firsthand experience and industry leaders. The book includes contributions from renowned tech leaders and thinkers, offering diverse perspectives on technology leadership. |
| devops vs release management: Business Process Management: Current Applications and the Challenges of Adoption Renata Gabryelczyk, Tomislav Hernaus, 2020-01-01 Business Process Management (BPM) has been evolving for over 25 years in information systems research, management science, and organizational practice (Vom Brocke & Mendling, 2018). The earliest characteristics of BPM concentrated around process analysis, improvement and control, in a less strict manner that required reengineering (Elzinga, Horak, Lee, & Bruner, 1995). More mature approaches, observed since the year 2000, have been promoting the so-called process thinking, i.e. managing an organization from a process-based point of view. These approaches emphasize that process and team work oriented organizational structures should be aligned with other management systems. Process management should be holistic by its nature so as to cover an entire organization. Although BPM researchers stressed the need for system thinking at that time, published literature distinguished two perspectives of looking at BPM: the organizational perspective and the technological perspective of BPM. From the organizational perspective, authors focused on a number of key factors, i.e., process governance, a process-based organizational structure concept, customer orientation of internal and external processes, managing an organization based on process outputs, building process relations, and improving process maturity throughout the customer value chain, as well as through strategically aligning process initiatives to organizational objectives. From the technological perspective, the key factors of interest to authors, referred to as BPMS (Business Process Management System), include IT methods, techniques and tools that support the designing, implementation, modeling and simulation of business processes and are considered to be an extension of classical workflow systems or an environment for designing management support IT systems, e.g. ERP class systems. An integrated and interdisciplinary approach was proposed in the framework of six core BPM elements required for the holistic and sustainable use of process management (Rosemann & Vom Brocke, 2010). These include strategic alignment, governance, methods, information technology, people and culture. In this sense, technology is only one of six closely interrelated elements. Currently, there are two distinct directions in the evolution of BPM: traditional BPM and digital BPM. The former encompasses methods, techniques and systems that traditionally lead to increased organizational efficiency and to improved process effectiveness and flexibility. Although studies on BPM have been continuously evolving, some research gaps still remain open. The traditional understanding of process management seems particularly vital to organizations in developing economies, which sometimes follow practices and models that were designed and tested in highly developed countries, but should also be committed to drawing on their own experience and understanding of their local business environment (Gabryelczyk & Roztocki, 2018). Research on BPM in this traditional focus is still needed to better document, implement and improve idiosyncratic business processes in the context of an organization, environment, culture, and country. This is also confirmed by research conducted under the JEMI Special Issue on Business Process Management. Besides the traditionally shaped approach to BPM, organizations increasingly treat BPM as a driver of organizational innovation and as an essential part of the digital transformation (Vom Brocke & Schmiedel, 2015). New digital technologies such as social media, digital platforms, big data and advanced data analytics, blockchains, robotics, etc., enable development and growth in a constantly changing environment. To take advantage of these opportunities in the digital world, organizations require new BPM competences and capabilities. However, digital disruption creates quite a challenge for the BPM research community. How can BPM capabilities be developed in order to achieve adaptability, growth, flexibility, and agility? How can BPM foster innovations within and throughout organizations? These are just some of the issues for future BPM-related research. Threads associated with employing BPM for digital transformation have been included in a proposed Special Issue on BPM. This Special Issue on BPM consists of six articles including contributions from invited authors from three transition economies: Croatia, Slovakia, and Poland. All of the papers focus on applications of the process approach to management or directly to the adoption of Business Process Management. The majority of articles relate to the traditional BPM thread, although the indicated BPM alliances with other concepts such as Knowledge Management, Change Management, and Project Management are worthy of note. Only one article addresses the topic of BPM in the context of digital transformation. The nature and structure of these articles may be indicative of the current motivational factors and process maturity levels of organizations adopting ordinary and/or advanced BPM practices. When analyzing the content of individual articles, we pay attention to the factors underlying BPM adoption. We understand the primary motivation to be the expected benefits from BPM. Therefore, we can assume this Special Issue to be a contribution to BPM development in the form of the indicating motivation and triggers for BPM adoption. The first paper, by Jerzy Auksztol and Magdalena Chomuszko, proposes a process-based approach to construct a Data Control Framework for Standard Audit File for Tax (SAF-T). The process approach is used to redesign the internal financial control processes and procedures of an organization to meet the new requirements of a fiscal audit. The process approach, combined with risk management and quality management, is, therefore, a tool supporting entrepreneurs adapting to new regulations imposed on them by their external environment, particularly those of tax authorities. Therefore, in this case, the main motivation for adopting elements of BPM was the impact of external environment factors. The paper by Ana-Marija Stjepić, Lucija Ivančić, and Dalia Suša Vugec focuses on the link between Business Process Management and digital transformation. The authors have developed a theoretical framework for the emerging role of BPM in digitalization and as a guide for researchers and practitioners conducting digital transformation initiatives in organizations. The results obtained in the article prove that the set goals and expected benefits of digital transformation can be achieved by a rethink and improvement of the processes, with a particular focus on end-to-end customer processes through supply chain management. Based on this article, we can conclude that one of the main motivational factors for BPM adoption is a desire to obtain the benefits of digital transformation. The article written by Miroslava Nyulásziová and Dana Paľová takes up the issues of using and linking the process approach and BPM lifecycle with the designing of decision support systems. The authors of this paper have developed an innovative system for decision support by implementing modeling, analysis, and improvement methods to the transportation process in the studied organization. The forwarding company’s case study presented in the paper also shows how BPM adoption began with a single main process that has been streamlined and automated. Therefore, the motivations for BPM adoption were not only operational, relating to the optimization of the cost of the process, but also managerial, oriented on improving the decision-making process. The use of information technology allowed the full exploitation of the potential for process improvements. The next paper by Olga Sobolewska is about incorporating the issues of BPM into the contemporary challenges of network organizations. The author claims that the organization’s orientation towards both business processes and knowledge management is a strong success factor for network cooperation. The author argues that modern organizations should focus on managing knowledge-oriented processes to become attractive to cooperation partners for network organizations. In this article, BPM adoption is of a strategic nature for the purposes of undertaking new forms of cooperation. The paper by Hubert Bogumił has an interdisciplinary character and, in a unique way, shows the connections between the concepts of process management, organizational change management, and IT project management. The author undertook the challenge of examining how problems for organizations managing IT projects facilitate in different ways the use of distinctive approaches to improve business processes. The author emphasizes that the main difficulty is the fact that modern organizations most often use a hybrid approach, with elements of both traditional project management and agile. The need to create a work environment that takes into account the risk of unexpected system and business regression, as well as a diagnosis of the causes and methods of its mitigation, is the initial research result in this paper. This article contributes to the development of BPM governance and integration of IT governance. The motivational factors for BPM are multi-faceted, as is the scope of the article. However, their managerial and cultural character (related to methods of communication and rules of cooperation in teams) should be emphasized. The article by Agnieszka Bitkowska concerns the integration of the concept of Knowledge Management and BPM. The author restates in her article that the identification, acquisition, presentation and documentation of knowledge are not independent tasks, but are implemented within business processes. In this paper, the correlations between BPM and Knowledge Management have been examined and the benefits and practical implications resulting from the integrated implementation of both concepts are emphasized. In the case of this article, BPM adoption can be a success factor for the implementation of Knowledge Management and the achievement of associated benefits. Studying Business Process Management from the different angles presented in this Special Issue should enrich our understanding of current BPM practices and better realize future challenges, especially those related to BPM development in the context of digital transformation and the integration of BPM with other management-related concepts. In addition, the contribution made by the authors of this Special Issue allowed us to see various motivations and triggers for BPM adoption, from operational, to managerial, strategic, cultural and technological ones, and those driven by the external environment. We would like to thank the authors for their contribution to this Special Issue. We would also like to thank all the reviewers for their valuable comments, which helped the authors improve their articles significantly. We are firmly convinced that the BPM research results presented in this Special Issue will help strengthen the existing body of BPM knowledge. We recommend reading the related issue of the JEMI journal to the wider community of BPM researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Guest Editors Renata Gabryelczyk , Tomislav Hernaus Acknowledgments The editorial work on this Special Issue was supported by the Polish National Science Centre, Poland, Grant No. 2017/27/B/HS4/01734. References Elzinga, D. J., Horak, T., Lee, C.-Y., & Bruner, C. (1995). Business process management: Survey and methodology. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 42(2), 119-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/17.387274 Gabryelczyk, R., & Roztocki, N. (2018). 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| devops vs release management: Devops in Practice Danilo Sato, 2014-04-16 DevOps is a cultural and professional movement that's trying to break these walls. Focused on automation, collaboration, tool sharing and knowledge sharing, DevOps has been revealing that developers and system engineers have a lot to learn from one another. In this book, Danilo Sato will show you how to implement DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices so as to raise your system's deployment frequency at the same time as increasing the production application's stability and robustness. You will learn how to automate a web application's build and deploy phases and the infrastructure management, how to monitor the system deployed to production, how to evolve and migrate an architecture to the cloud and still get to know several other tools that you can use on your company |
| devops vs release management: Terraform: Up & Running Yevgeniy Brikman, 2019-09-06 Terraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. This hands-on second edition, expanded and thoroughly updated for Terraform version 0.12 and beyond, shows you the fastest way to get up and running. Gruntwork cofounder Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman walks you through code examples that demonstrate Terraform’s simple, declarative programming language for deploying and managing infrastructure with a few commands. Veteran sysadmins, DevOps engineers, and novice developers will quickly go from Terraform basics to running a full stack that can support a massive amount of traffic and a large team of developers. Explore changes from Terraform 0.9 through 0.12, including backends, workspaces, and first-class expressions Learn how to write production-grade Terraform modules Dive into manual and automated testing for Terraform code Compare Terraform to Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Salt Stack Deploy server clusters, load balancers, and databases Use Terraform to manage the state of your infrastructure Create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules Use advanced Terraform syntax to achieve zero-downtime deployment |
| devops vs release management: DevOps: Continuous Delivery, Integration, and Deployment with DevOps Sricharan Vadapalli, 2018-03-13 Explore the high-in demand core DevOps strategies with powerful DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Chef Key Features ●Get acquainted with methodologies and tools of the DevOps framework ●Perform continuous integration, delivery, deployment, and monitoring using DevOps tools ●Explore popular tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on ●Embedded with assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book Book Description DevOps is the most widely used software engineering culture and practice that aim sat software development and operation. Continuous integration is a cornerstone technique of DevOps that merges software code updates from developers into a shared central mainline. This book takes a practical approach and covers the tools and strategies of DevOps. It starts with familiarizing you with DevOps framework and then shows how toper form continuous delivery, integration, and deployment with DevOps. You will explore DevOps process maturity frameworks and progression models with checklist templates for each phase of DevOps. You will also be familiar with agile terminology, methodology, and the benefits accrued by an organization by adopting it. You will also get acquainted with popular tools such as Git, Jenkins ,Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on.You will learn configuration, automation, and the implementation of infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible. This book is ideal for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps. What you will learn ●Get familiar with life cycle models, maturity states, progression and best practices of DevOps frameworks ●Learn to set up Jenkins and integrate it with Git ●Know how to build jobs and perform testing with Jenkins ●Implement infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible ●Understand continuous monitoring process with tools such as Splunk and Nagios ●Learn how Splunk improves the code quality Who this book is for This book is for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps. |
| devops vs release management: Engineering the Digital Transformation Gary Gruver, 2020-03-14 I see it all the time: Businesses implement the latest Agile and DevOps practices from thesoftware industry, hoping that simply doing so will provide the required improvements.But months and evenyears later, they're still struggling. Similarly, I watch the softwareindustry trying to learn and implement wholesale what the manufacturing industry didyears ago.As it turns out, we can't just copy what others have done. Businesses need to understandthe unique challenges of their company. And digital assets like software are very differentfrom physical assets that are manufactured. Every business is different, and softwaredevelopment is different from manufacturing.Engineering the Digital Transformation provides systematic approaches to improvinghow software is developed for a broad range of applications. This book focuses on high-level principles for engineering improvements, leveraging as much as possible frommanufacturing, and modifies them toaddress the unique characteristics and capabilitiesof software. |
| devops vs release management: Developing Blockchain Solutions in the Cloud Stefano Tempesta, Michael John Peña, 2024-04-26 Learn how to implement, deploy, and manage blockchain solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP with the help of hands-on labs and real-world use cases Key Features Learn architecture design patterns and access code samples for building Web3 apps in the cloud Master the latest tools and cloud technologies for integrating DevOps in blockchain applications Strengthen your understanding of cloud-native blockchain through real-world use cases and best practices Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionAs Web3 technologies continue to gain momentum across industries, businesses are looking for new ways to leverage the benefits of Web3 and stay at the forefront of technological innovation. This comprehensive guide offers an in-depth exploration of cloud-native blockchain fundamentals, providing valuable insights into the benefits and challenges of deploying these technologies in the cloud. From foundational concepts to advanced techniques, the book covers everything you need to know about developing and deploying secure, scalable blockchain solutions on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Through hands-on tutorials and projects, you’ll explore the latest tools, technologies, real-world use cases, and best practices to expand your understanding of the field’s complexities and opportunities. This book ensures easy comprehension through practical examples and access to source code on GitHub. As you advance, you’ll master platform selection and apply your newfound knowledge to tackle complex problems and deliver innovative cloud-native blockchain solutions tailored for your specific needs. By the end of this book, you’ll have a deep understanding of cloud-native blockchain deployment and implementation, and you’ll be equipped with the skills and knowledge to build secure and scalable solutions.What you will learn Discover the benefits and challenges of deploying Web3 solutions in the cloud Deploy secure and scalable blockchain networks leveraging AWS, Azure, and GCP resources Follow step-by-step tutorials and code samples to build Web3 solutions in the cloud Use hosted Kubernetes platforms, such as EKS, AKS, and GKE, for custom blockchains Compare the blockchain capabilities and offerings of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Familiarize yourself with the tools and techniques for automating DevOps practices tailored to Web3 apps Who this book is for The book is for cloud developers and DevOps engineers who want to leverage blockchain technologies in their cloud-native solutions. Whether you’re an IT professional deploying and maintaining Web3 solutions in the enterprise or in public settings, or a business leader evaluating blockchain's potential, this resource is invaluable. Entrepreneurs, students, academics, and hobbyists exploring the latest Web3 development trends will also benefit from this book. Prior knowledge of cloud computing and blockchain concepts is recommended to make the best use of the expert insights, hands-on tutorials, and real-world use cases presented. |
| devops vs release management: Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Unleashed with Azure Stack and Azure Kerrie Meyler, Steve Buchanan, Mark Scholman, Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen, Janaka Rangama, 2017-11-21 Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Unleashed brings together comprehensive and practical insights into hybrid cloud technologies, complete CloudOps and DevOps implementation strategies, and detailed guidance for deploying Microsoft Azure Stack in your environment. Written by five Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVPs, this book is built on real-world scenarios and the authors’ extraordinary hands-on experiences as early adopters. Step by step, the authors help you integrate your optimal mix of private and public cloud, with a unified management experience that lets you move workloads at will, achieving unprecedented flexibility. The authors also guide you through all aspects of building your own secure, high-performance hybrid cloud infrastructure. You’ll discover how Azure Stack enables you to run data centers with the same scalability, redundancy, and reliability as Microsoft’s Azure data centers; how to integrate Azure infrastructure and platform services with internal operations; and how to manage crucial external dependencies. The book concludes with a deep dive into automating and customizing Azure Stack for maximum reliability, productivity, and cost savings. Detailed information on how to Run a private/hybrid cloud on your hardware in your data center, using APIs and code identical to public Azure Apply ITIL and DevOps lifecycles to your hybrid cloud implementation Gain a deep understanding of Azure Stack architecture, components, and internals Install and configure Azure Stack and master the Azure Stack Portal Integrate and utilize infrastructure, core, and custom resource providers Effectively provision, secure, and manage tenants Manage, monitor, troubleshoot, and back up Azure Stack with CloudOps Automate resource provisioning with PowerShell, the Azure CLI, templates, and Azure Stack’s API Write your own Azure Resource Manager templates Centrally automate cloud management and complex tasks connected to external systems Develop customized, production-ready Azure Stack marketplace items |
| devops vs release management: Practical Salesforce Architecture Paul McCollum, 2023-10-05 Once renowned as a customer relationship management tool, Salesforce has evolved into a cloud-first application and capability ecosystem. With dedicated components for tasks such as middleware, big data, reporting, ETL, data loading, and API orchestration, Salesforce has become more prevalent in modern architectures. This concise yet comprehensive guide provides an overview of Salesforce architecture for enterprise architects and Salesforce ecosystem architects. Author Paul McCollum, Salesforce Technical Architect at Accenture, provides a roadmap for integrating major elements of the Salesforce ecosystem with planned or existing enterprise architecture. You'll learn how to use these components to address the diverse needs of different organizations. Many companies today are adding or building multicloud capabilities and incorporating various elements from the Salesforce ecosystem. With this book, you'll learn: Strengths, weaknesses, and growth areas of Salesforce's enterprise architecture domain features How Salesforce compares to other cloud providers Methods for using the Salesforce ecosystem effectively to address your organization's needs How to integrate Salesforce with planned or existing enterprise architectures Ways to manage and forecast performance, complexity, and ease of operation across the Salesforce platform |
| devops vs release management: Elements of Digital Transformation Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar, 2023-12-06 Elements of Digital Transformation is a practitioner’s guide to the digital transformation process. It is also a guide for managers in today’s organizations that are accelerating digital transformation to modernize core technology capabilities and processes. The book discusses such key components of digital transformation as processes, principles and proven methods. It also covers such novel concepts in digital transformation as the first-time right framework, incident management transformation, digital factory, cloud migration, API-first approach and legacy modernization. Other highlights of the book include: A cloud migration framework along with a cloud migration methodology, rollout strategy and migration principles Principles and approaches for legacy modernization and process modernization Smart ticket management, smart problem management, proactive maintenance and ticket-avoidance architecture The novel digital factory approach to automate the software process Detailed case studies, a sample digital transformation exercise and a consulting exercise for digital transformation provide readers with real-world digital transformation scenarios and best practices. The book also discusses DevOps, automation and agile delivery models that help in digital transformation. |
| devops vs release management: Balancing Agile and Disciplined Engineering and Management Approaches for IT Services and Software Products Mora, Manuel, Gómez, Jorge Marx, O'Connor, Rory V., Buchalcevová, Alena, 2020-07-10 The highly dynamic world of information technology service management stresses the benefits of the quick and correct implementation of IT services. A disciplined approach relies on a separate set of assumptions and principles as an agile approach, both of which have complicated implementation processes as well as copious benefits. Combining these two approaches to enhance the effectiveness of each, while difficult, can yield exceptional dividends. Balancing Agile and Disciplined Engineering and Management Approaches for IT Services and Software Products is an essential publication that focuses on clarifying theoretical foundations of balanced design methods with conceptual frameworks and empirical cases. Highlighting a broad range of topics including business trends, IT service, and software development, this book is ideally designed for software engineers, software developers, programmers, information technology professionals, researchers, academicians, and students. |
| devops vs release management: Beginning Build and Release Management with TFS 2017 and VSTS Chaminda Chandrasekara, 2017-06-01 Master build and release management with Team Foundation Service and Visual Studio Team Services to facilitate the continuous delivery of software updates to your development team. You'll receive detailed, practical guidance on automating website deployments in Azure App Service, database deployments to Azure platform, Micro Services deployments in Azure Service Fabric, and more. Each deployment is structured with the aid of hands-on lessons in a given target environment designed to empower your teams to achieve successful DevOps. This book provides lessons on how to optimize build release management definitions using capabilities, such as task groups. With the help of practical scenarios, you’ll also learn how to diagnose and fix issues in automated builds and deployments. You’ll see how to enhance the capability of build and release management, using team services/TFS Marketplace extensions and writing your own extensions for any missing functionality via hands-on lessons. What You Will Learn Automate deployment to Azure platform, including Web App Service, Azure SQL and Azure Service Fabric Test automation integration with builds and deployments Perform Dynamic CRM deployment handling and package management with TFS/VSTS Examine requirement to production delivery traceability in practical terms Review cross platform build/deployment capabilities of TFS/VSTS. Who This Book Is For Build/Release Engineers, Configuration Managers, Software Developers, Test Automation Engineers, System Engineers, Software Architects and System/Production Support Engineers or anyone who handles and involves in the software delivery process. |
| devops vs release management: Azure DevOps Explained Sjoukje Zaal, Stefano Demiliani, Amit Malik, 2020-12-11 Implement real-world DevOps and cloud deployment scenarios using Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, and other Azure DevOps tools Key FeaturesImprove your application development life cycle with Azure DevOps in a step-by-step mannerApply continuous integration and continuous deployment to reduce application downtimeWork with real-world CI/CD scenarios curated by a team of renowned Microsoft MVPs and MCTsBook Description Developing applications for the cloud involves changing development methodologies and procedures. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes are a must today, but are often difficult to implement and adopt. Azure DevOps is a Microsoft Azure cloud service that enhances your application development life cycle and enables DevOps capabilities. Starting with a comprehensive product overview, this book helps you to understand Azure DevOps and apply DevOps techniques to your development projects. You'll find out how to adopt DevOps techniques for your development processes by using built-in Azure DevOps tools. Throughout the course of this book, you'll also discover how to manage a project with the help of project management techniques such as Agile and Scrum, and then progress toward development aspects such as source code management, build pipelines, code testing and artifacts, release pipelines, and GitHub integration. As you learn how to implement DevOps practices, this book will also provide you with real-world examples and scenarios of DevOps adoption. By the end of this DevOps book, you will have learned how to adopt and implement Azure DevOps features in your real-world development processes. What you will learnGet to grips with Azure DevOpsFind out about project management with Azure BoardsUnderstand source code management with Azure ReposBuild and release pipelinesRun quality tests in build pipelinesUse artifacts and integrate Azure DevOps in the GitHub flowDiscover real-world CI/CD scenarios with Azure DevOpsWho this book is for This book is for developers, solutions architects, and DevOps engineers interested in getting started with cloud DevOps practices on Azure. Prior understanding of Azure architecture and services is necessary. Some knowledge of DevOps principles and techniques will be useful. |
| devops vs release management: The Art of Business Value Mark Schwartz, 2016-04-07 Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means—and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements “tossed over the wall” by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal! Playful and thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a central concern. This book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software. This book will make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead. |
| devops vs release management: High Performance Drupal Jeff Sheltren, Narayan Newton, Nathaniel Catchpole, 2013-10-14 How can you help your Drupal website continue to perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. You’ll learn how to apply coding and infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance, databases, web servers, and performance analysis. Covering Drupal versions 7 and 8, this book is the ideal reference for everything from site deployment to implementing specific technologies such as Varnish, memcache, or Solr. If you have a basic understanding of Drupal and the Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP (LAMP) stack, you’re ready to get started. Establish a performance baseline and define goals for improvement Optimize your website’s code and front-end performance Get best and worst practices for customizing Drupal core functionality Apply infrastructure design techniques to launch or expand a site Use tools to configure, monitor, and optimize MySQL performance Employ alternative storage and backend search options as your site grows Tune your web servers through httpd and PHP configuration Monitor services and perform load tests to catch problems before they become critical |
| devops vs release management: DevOps for Developers Michael Httermann, 2012-10-24 DevOps for Developers delivers a practical, thorough introduction to approaches, processes and tools to foster collaboration between software development and operations. Efforts of Agile software development often end at the transition phase from development to operations. This book covers the delivery of software, this means “the last mile”, with lean practices for shipping the software to production and making it available to the end users, together with the integration of operations with earlier project phases (elaboration, construction, transition). DevOps for Developers describes how to streamline the software delivery process and improve the cycle time (that is the time from inception to delivery). It will enable you to deliver software faster, in better quality and more aligned with individual requirements and basic conditions. And above all, work that is aligned with the “DevOps” approach makes even more fun! Provides patterns and toolchains to integrate software development and operations Delivers an one-stop shop for kick-starting with DevOps Provides guidance how to streamline the software delivery process |
| devops vs release management: Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef Stephen Nelson-Smith, 2013-10-11 Since Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef first appeared in mid-2011, infrastructure testing has begun to flourish in the web ops world. In this revised and expanded edition, author Stephen Nelson-Smith brings you up to date on this rapidly evolving discipline, including the philosophy driving it and a growing array of tools. You’ll get a hands-on introduction to the Chef framework, and a recommended toolchain and workflow for developing your own test-driven production infrastructure. Several exercises and examples throughout the book help you gain experience with Chef and the entire infrastructure-testing ecosystem. Learn how this test-first approach provides increased security, code quality, and peace of mind. Explore the underpinning philosophy that infrastructure can and should be treated as code Become familiar with the MASCOT approach to test-driven infrastructure Understand the basics of test-driven and behavior-driven development for managing change Dive into Chef fundamentals by building an infrastructure with real examples Discover how Chef works with tools such as Virtualbox and Vagrant Get a deeper understanding of Chef by learning Ruby language basics Learn the tools and workflow necessary to conduct unit, integration, and acceptance tests |
| devops vs release management: Team Topologies Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais, 2019-09-17 Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs? Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity. In Team Topologies, IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help readers choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams. Team Topologies is a major step forward in organizational design for software, presenting a well-defined way for teams to interact and interrelate that helps make the resulting software architecture clearer and more sustainable, turning inter-team problems into valuable signals for the self-steering organization. |
| devops vs release management: Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises Cecil Rupp, Manjit Singh, 2020-08-31 Establish business agility in your organization by applying industry-proven scaling strategies from popular Scrum frameworks such as Scrum of Scrums (SoS), Scrum@Scale, Nexus, Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), Disciplined Agile, and SAFe Key FeaturesLearn how to be Agile at scale by implementing best practicesUnderstand how Lean-Agile practices are incorporated in Disciplined Agile and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)Customize Scrum and Lean-Agile practices to support portfolio and large product development needsBook Description Scaled Scrum and Lean-Agile practices provide essential strategies to address large and complex product development challenges not addressed in traditional Scrum. This Scrum/ Lean-Agile handbook provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven scaling strategies that enable business agility on an enterprise scale. Free of marketing hype or vendor bias, this book helps you decide which practices best fit your situation. You'll start with an introduction to Scrum as a lightweight software development framework and then explore common approaches to scaling it for more complex development scenarios. The book will then guide you through systems theory, lean development, and the application of holistic thinking to more complex software and system development activities. Throughout, you'll learn how to support multiple teams working in collaboration to develop large and complex products and explore how to manage cross-team integration, dependency, and synchronization issues. Later, you'll learn how to improve enterprise operational efficiency across value creation and value delivery activities, before discovering how to align product portfolio investments with corporate strategies. By the end of this Scrum book, you and your product teams will be able to get the most value out of Agile at scale, even in complex cyber-physical system development environments. What you will learnUnderstand the limitations of traditional Scrum practicesExplore the roles and responsibilities in a scaled Scrum and Lean-Agile development environmentTailor your Scrum approach to support portfolio and large product development needsApply systems thinking to evaluate the impacts of changes in the interdependent parts of a larger development and delivery systemScale Scrum practices at both the program and portfolio levels of managementUnderstand how DevOps, test automation, and CI/CD capabilities help in scaling Scrum practicesWho this book is for Executives, product owners, Scrum masters, development team members, and other stakeholders who need to learn how to scale Agile to support large, complex projects and large enterprise portfolios and programs will find this book useful. A basic understanding of the values and principles of Agile and the Scrum-based framework for Agile development practices is required before you get started with this Agile Scrum book. |
| devops vs release management: Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook Hugo Herrera, 2022-07-29 Gain expertise in solution architecture and master all aspects of Power Platform, from data and automation to analytics and security Key Features Become a full-fledged Power Platform expert and lead your solutions with conviction and clarity Adopt a consistent, systematic, and advanced approach to solution architecture Work on practical examples and exercises to develop expert-level skills and prepare for certification Book DescriptionIf you’ve been looking for a way to unlock the potential of Microsoft Power Platform and take your career as a solution architect to the next level, then look no further—this practical guide covers it all. Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect’s Handbook will equip you with everything you need to build flexible and cost-effective end-to-end solutions. Its comprehensive coverage ranges from best practices surrounding fit-gap analysis, leading design processes, and navigating existing systems to application lifecycle management with Microsoft Azure DevOps, security compliance monitoring, and third-party API integration. The book takes a hands-on approach by guiding you through a fictional case study throughout the book, allowing you to apply what you learn as you learn it. At the end of the handbook, you’ll discover a set of mock tests for you to embed your progress and prepare for PL-600 Microsoft certification. Whether you want to learn how to work with Power Platform or want to take your skills from the intermediate to advanced level, this book will help you achieve that and ensure that you’re able to add value to your organization as an expert solution architect.What you will learn Cement the foundations of your applications using best practices Use proven design, build, and go-live strategies to ensure success Lead requirements gathering and analysis with confidence Secure even the most complex solutions and integrations Ensure compliance between the Microsoft ecosystem and your business Build resilient test and deployment strategies to optimize solutions Who this book is for This book is for solution architects, enterprise architects, technical consultants, and business and system analysts who implement, optimize, and architect Power Platform and Dataverse solutions. It will also help anyone who needs a detailed playbook for architecting and delivering successful digital transformation projects that leverage Power Platform apps and the Microsoft business apps ecosystem. A solid understanding of Power Platform configuration and administration, Power Automate processes, Power Apps Portals, Canvas Apps, Dataverse Plugins, and Workflow Capabilities is expected. |
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Devops Vs Release Management - origin-impurities.waters
insights into the essence of DevOps Release Management, illuminating its nuances and providing basic strategies for its implementation. You’ll explore how CI/CD pipelines enforce good DevOps
BMC Release Lifecycle Management 4.x: Fundamentals …
It is designed to provide an overview of the roles, capabilities, principles, and processes of DevOps, followed by coverage of the process of modeling application release processes and deploying …
10 IJAERS-JUN-2016-13-Software Release Management
DevOps and Agile complement each other to deploy working functionality into production faster. The main goal of Continuous Delivery and DevOps is to release more reliable applications faster...
Implement and ManageAzure Pipelines Infrastructure
Continuous Delivery and DevOps with Azure DevOps: Release Pipelines Created Date: 11/16/2021 5:12:21 PM
Best Practices for Version Control and Release Management …
Version control and release management are crucial for ensuring the stability, scalability, and efficiency of software development processes. GitLab CI/CD has emerged as a powerful platform …
The Role of DevOps in Enhancing Release Management - IJSR
paper thoroughly examines the transformative impact of DevOps on release management, specifically focusing on how it has led to increased operational efficiency, a significant reduction …
CC045460 IL CIO IL-22-01, Separation of Duties in a DevOps …
DevOps, DevSecOps or agile management approach, the underlying principle is to break down silos between business line, development, operation and security teams and personnel to increase …
DEPLOYING VS RELEASING SOFTWARE: WHAT’S THE …
In service management, two terms, deployment and release, are often used interchangeably to describe rollout of these updates. But is there a difference between them?
Release Management in DevOps - Springer
DevOps way of understanding release management and propose a DevOps adaptation of the ITIL release (and deployment) management process. Change Management vs. Release Management
Agiles IT Change-, Release- und Deployment Management
Agiles IT Change-, Release- und Deployment Management Vom Release-Tanker zum Schnellboot – Der Schwenk von großen Releases zu agil • DevOps-Anlehnung in SAP • Von Testing, Coding, …
Change Vs Release Management [PDF] - old.icapgen.org
management and optimized release throughput This unique book offers a fresh enterprise perspective that addresses strategic change and the release life cycle providing executives and …
ITOPS VS DEVOPS VS NOOPS: THE IT OPERATIONS …
NoOps and DevOps are similar in a sense as they both rely on automation to streamline software development and deployment. However, DevOps aims to garner a more collaborative …
SRE VS DEVOPS: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? - BMC Blogs
DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) are two approaches that enhance the product release cycle through enhanced collaboration, automation, and monitoring.
