DevOps 101: Video

DevOps

by Abhinav Kaiser - January 11, 2019January 11, 20190

I recently did a video introducing DevOps to some of my mentees. I call this video DevOps 101. I have tried to explain the meaning of DevOps in a basic sense, and this is perhaps the simplest way anybody could put it across. Do let me know your thoughts. I plan

ITIL V4 is Coming

ITSM and ITIL

by Abhinav Kaiser - January 9, 2019January 9, 20192

For more than a year, the news coming in thick and fast was a new version of ITIL, numbered V4 is on its way. After a long wait, we now know that it is coming out this year, and speculations are rife that it may be before March 2019. The last

How does DevOps Transform ITIL Configuration Management?

by Abhinav Kaiser - December 22, 2018December 22, 20180

The ITIL Configuration Management is a mature process. It has transformed, improved and has been fine tuned over the years. The ITIL 2011 configuration management process is steady and can readily provide value to organizations. If we add DevOps to the mix, the configuration management as we know it from the

Objects in the Rear-View Mirror Appear Closer Than They Are

by Abhinav Kaiser - December 1, 20180

Managing projects is an art that takes twists and turns at every step of the way. No two projects follow the same trajectory, and every project is a new learning experience. They say that bygones are bygones, to forget what happened (generally unpleasant ones) in the past. However, in project management

Why are DevOps and ITIL not on Opposing Sides

by Abhinav Kaiser - November 19, 2018December 11, 20180

Software development organizations that have implemented ITIL or one of its variants often ask me how the framework will be phased out as we start implementing DevOps processes. A few organizations have started taking steps to do away with ITIL framework without due diligence from a DevOps perspective. In the case

Role of Triple Constraints in an Agile Project

by Abhinav Kaiser - November 6, 2018December 11, 20180

Traditional project management has relied on the foundations of triple constraints to plan and control projects. It has always stood like a rock for projects to be planned and executed around it. With the advent of agile project management methodologies, what happens to the principle that once defined project management? Cost,

How To Avoid Seven Most Common PMP® Exam Mistakes

by Abhinav Kaiser - October 29, 2018December 10, 20180

Planning for, taking, and passing the Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam can be a long and stressful journey. What better way is there to take a little stress off and help yourself prepare than to learn from those who have gone before you? Here we will look at seven of

Agile is Common Sense

by Abhinav Kaiser - October 20, 2018December 10, 20181

Agile is everything today, starting from running projects to the outset of people in organizations. Without agile, it seems that the system would break down. Just a decade earlier, it was a newbie trying to make inroads and being off-roaded by biggies of the waterfall generation. What has changed to