In today’s world, software is everywhere – and it is spreading fast. Once it was just big enterprise applications, which changed slowly. Then it was web applications and mobile apps that varied week by week or even every hour. Today though, fast-changing software is part of everything that the business is, and everything that it does, from the systems it uses internally to its brand via the apps and services it provides to its customers.
The challenge for software development and IT operations teams is to be as agile and responsive as possible, extracting and utilizing insights and feedback to push things forwards rapidly, but securely. This is not an overnight change, but in a global survey of IT and business executives on how organizations are modernizing their software delivery practices, we found a group which has mastered the key principles, ‘The Agility Masters’. This group is already doing most or nearly all of the right things to make agile and DevOps an integral and essential part of how they function day by day. Download the research report to find out more …
Content Contributors: Tony Lock & Bryan Betts
Tony is an IT operations guru. As an ex-IT manager with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, his extensive vendor briefing agenda makes him one of the most well informed analysts in the industry, particularly on the diversity of solutions and approaches available to tackle key operational requirements. If you are a vendor talking about a new offering, be very careful about describing it to Tony as ‘unique’, because if it isn’t, he’ll probably know.
Bryan is a technology enthusiast and industry veteran. He has been analysing, explaining and writing about IT and business in a highly engaging manner for around three decades. His experience spans the early days of minicomputers and PC technology, through the emergence of cellular data and smart mobile devices, to the latest developments of the software-defined age in which we all live today. Over his career, Bryan has seen at first-hand how IT changes the world – and how the world changes IT – and he brings that extensive insight to his role as an industry analyst.
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