Tom Peruzzi's thoughts on digital, innovation, IT and operations

Whenever we hear terms like agility, scrum, XP, KanBan or whatever most people think like “This is cool development and innovation stuff, ops doesn’t have to care on that” NOT TRUE!!!

Whenever you hear something about a new development methodology, framework or anything else be prepared, changing developments life will change your interfaces hence your operational life too!

And better to act on interfaces than reacting. We currently do a lot of investigation on cloud, agile and how it changes our ops life but to be honest, agility drives the operational need for clouds.

Think about the following: You best act with scrum teams if you show them your boarders and limitations (aka frameworks, standards, tec. recommendations) and act as an active stakeholder with and within the scrum team. The better the teams will be, the more they will need agile resources from your ops department. Flexibility or agility can be achieved by a bunch of technologies and with different investment scenarios but one which probably fits best is reacting with cloud computing resources or highly available virtual resources (hence highly automated and “near cloud”) and provide proper feedback to the agile teams.
Doing so you will get a very high throughput within your IT organization, tons of congratulations as you were one of the very rare operators thinking in business terms and needs and you will get a very effective and efficient ops team with strict and accepted boarders. The better and clearer they are, the better your automatisation is, the better agility is supported and the better feedback will be.
If not, do what you have to do with such developers 😉
I will keep on writing about agility and cloud operations as I personally believe this is the way we will operate the next years long.