This week, I was privileged to attend and contribute to a great conference chaired by my good friend, Gene Kim. His organization is IT Revolution.
The DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas finished today, but in the video library you can see some of the great presentations. I was only there for half a day, but heard inspiring stories from American Airlines, Mattel, and the US Navy (the videos are in the library – watch them! Mine is there too.) I see there will be a virtual conference in December.
What I witnessed was how companies were able to transform their technology and even product (toys, in the case of Mattel) development processes.
Instead of change taking months or years, new code, apps, or products were being developed and deployed in days or less.
Change like this can transform an entire company, helping it respond with agility to market changes and opportunities.
My role in the conference was to talk about how internal audit can be a partner and help drive the change – but it requires the auditor to jump on board and embrace the revolution, and management to open their eyes, ears, and arms to them.
What is DevOps? This is how Splunk describes it:
DevOps is an approach to IT delivery that combines people, practices and tools to break down silos between development and operations teams. DevOps…
