Scaling Agile development is, typically, a costly and inefficient process for two main reasons: one, the widespread use of various -- not single-vendor development -- tools in the DevOps toolchain; ...

Microsoft today announced Azure DevOps, the successor of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS, formerly Visual Studio Online) and Azure DevOps Server, the successor of Team Foundation Server (TFS). The ...

As cloud computing implementations grow in size and scope, successfully managing the deployment of and development process for those services becomes ever more challenging. And when companies attempt ...

Organisations are rightly focused on the need to meet customer demands for instant access to their services. Technology acceptance means that customer expectations have soared. They want to use any ...

In every industry, business cycles, driven by digital disruption, are accelerating. Now more than ever, IT service delivery cannot become a bottleneck. IT processes need to become faster and more ...

For years, the argument has gone back and forth -- information technology matters, but doesn't matter. Powerful technology has become cheap and ubiquitous, but the problem is that it has become cheap ...

In a technology context, DevOps is counterculture gone mainstream. Ten years ago, it was little more than a niche trend, adopted by organizations that saw speed and automation would sit at the heart ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. For business leaders ...

Ernie Smith is a former senior editor and journalist who has contributed to publications such as Vice Magazine. He is a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. In the higher ...

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Microsoft’s application lifecycle management system, is to undergo a major shake-up and rebranding. Instead of a single Visual Studio-branded service, it’s being ...

Imagine if we still communicated the way people did in the 1960s? The inefficiency of mailing letters and waiting for a reply or repeat calling a landline until someone is home to answer would drive a ...