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Focusing on People – The Key to a Successful Digital Transformation

The Current State of Digital Transformation As we move into the new decade, one thing remains—and promises to remain—constant...

Manuel Garcia
Mar 16, 2020 2 min read

Site Reliability Engineering is one of the hottest and fastest growing roles in today’s IT talent market

In January 2019 LinkedIn called the SRE role the 2nd most promising job in the US, behind only Data...

Jack Maher
Feb 20, 2020 2 min read

The Value of a DevOps Certification

With the recent formalization of DevOps as a cultural movement that is transforming the way in which IT areas...

Manuel Garcia
Jan 7, 2020 2 min read

Development Areas Have Achieved Agility. And Operations?

It’s no secret that business demands on IT for new projects and deliverables have considerably increased in the last years. With the introduction of the Internet of Things...

Manuel Garcia
Nov 12, 2019 3 min read

5 Reasons for Achieving Higher IT Process Maturity

All IT organizations have processes. Whether they acknowledge it or not, the activities they perform are part of a process, which may or may not be defined; but...

Manuel Garcia
Dec 16, 2019 2 min read

The challenges IT organizations are facing with the COVID-19…

Welcome to this first episode of the Global Lynx podcast, Future IT! Through this series we will be having conversations about the challenges, trends,...

John Buk
Mar 30, 2020 16 sec read

Video: Continuing to Create & Deliver Value in the…

Driving forward during The Crisis, and Beyond, to build and nurture internal and external relationships As more businesses, schools, and other organizations shut down...

Jack Maher
Mar 18, 2020 2 min read

Intangible Benefits are Critical for a DevOps Program’s Success!

There are several reasons why many IT initiatives fail, and one of the key reasons is that intangible benefits are not included in the...

Ruben Melendez
Sep 16, 2019 2 min read

The DevOps ROI Implementation

Many changes are going on in the IT world; the news talk about how IT is moving to the Cloud, how much strategy leaders...

Manuel Garcia
May 13, 2019 2 min read

9 Key Steps to Enable IT Governance (part 3…

Every IT organization needs governance in order to work properly. What does “working properly” mean? It is meeting its purpose: creating value by supporting business...

Manuel Garcia
Sep 10, 2018 2 min read

9 Key Steps to Enable IT Governance (part 2…

In this series I have been listing the key items required to enable a governance approach in an IT organization and explaining each of...

Manuel Garcia
Jul 16, 2018 3 min read

9 Key Steps to Enable IT Governance (part 1…

On the previous post we discussed the importance of IT Governance for the success of IT—that is, effectively supporting enterprise objectives through the use of IT,...

Manuel Garcia
May 14, 2018 3 min read

What Makes IT to Be Successful?

Perhaps many IT professionals have made this question themselves, and indeed there are many answers that may seem correct. But let me provide more...

Manuel Garcia
Mar 12, 2018 2 min read

The Real Scope of DevOps

Many people believe that DevOps is just meant for Development staff and IT Operations staff. Many with lower levels of curiosity who have not...

Manuel Garcia
Jan 8, 2018 2 min read

7 Critical Reasons for Having a Proper DevOps Strategy in Place DevOps has become without a doubt the new mainstream in IT. As common as ITSM processes were 10 years ago, now DevOps is what many people are focusing their efforts on. Despite the ubiquity... Read More

From Information Security to Resilience to Antifragility Information is without doubt the most critical asset to any business. You may lose people, but you can hire more; you may lose infrastructure, but you can buy or lease more; you may lose... Read More

Balance Control vs. Chaos to Allow for Innovation I would be lying if I said I’ve enjoyed experiencing chaos in my life. I don’t believe anyone actually likes unforeseen (most times negative) situations that change your plans all of a sudden; or... Read More

The Value Stream: What Customer Value Delivery Actually Looks Like If you hold a management role, either in IT or in a business department, you are most likely aware that the metric of “time-to-market” is losing relevance as a business success indicator, being now... Read More

DevSecOps – Dramatically Improving your Information Security Quickly “Shift Left” might be the center square on most “buzz word bingo sheets” these days. For most of us, it really means getting the folks “upstream” from us to become more involved with, or... Read More