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And Now the Bottle-neck is in Operations

In his forthcoming Agile Austin presentation, colleague and friend Michael Cote will be discussing velocity in Agile development vis-a-vis velocity in IT operations. To quote Cote: Technologies used by...

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The Urgency of Now – Guest Post by Annie Shum

Failure to learn, failure to anticipate, and failure to adapt are the three generic causes of military disasters. Each one of these three failures is bad enough. In combination, they can be...

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Cloud Computing Forecasts: “Cloudy” Future for Enterprise IT

In a comment on The Urgency of Now, Marcel Den Hartog discusses technology assimilation in the face of hype: But if people are already reluctant to run the things they have, on another platform they...

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Agile Infrastructure

Ten years ago I probably would not have seen any connection between global warming and server design. Today, power considerations prevail in the packaging of servers, particularly those slated for use...

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OpsCamp Through an Internet-scale Lens

Like Agile Roots in Salt Lake City in June 2009, OpsCamp in Austin last week demonstrated how powerful grass roots conferences can be. We might not have had big names on the roster, but we sure had a...

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Harnessing Economies of Scale in Cloud Computing to Realize a Greener...

Economies of Scale have been much discussed in The Agile Executive since the recent OpsCamp in Austin, TX. The significant savings on system administration costs  in very large data centers have been...

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It starts with Agile – The Pragmatic Cloud

In the podcasts around here and Israel’s posts we often talk about using cloud computing as a tool to deliver better software – indeed, to better the software delivery process. Those two angle on...

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Through the Prism of IT Transformation for Tomorrow’s Enterprise Datacenters:...

As indicated in our recent post “Extending the Scope of the Agile Executive”, Cote and I have recently reached the conclusion that The Agile Executive needs to cover structural changes in order to...

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Consumerization of Enterprise Software

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ross/3055802287/ Figure 1: Consumerization of IT The devastation in traditional Publishing needs precious little mentioning. Just think about a brand like...

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How Technical Debt Ties to Cloud, Mobile and Social

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Side_Highway_collapsed_at_14th.jpg Many years ago, when I came to the US, I was shocked to the core seeing the collapsed West Side Highway in New York City. I...

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