3 years ago

Kyle Brown, IBM Fellow, IBM Garage There is often recrimination and finger-pointing all around, and the most important thing I can do in a situation like that is remain calm and help the client arrive at a conclusion based on facts and not supposition.

Processes — Microservices implies that you are applying DevOps principles to your development processes such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

One symptom of this is when I ask the Agile teams who the Product Owner reports to — if it is someone in IT, then we may have a problem in that the business is really not involved as deeply as they should be.

Sticking to the basics of making sure that all three pieces are enabled, and that IT is aligned with the business is all you need to do, but it’s not easy to ensure that this happens.