Category Archives: Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Operational Excellence at Pivotal

I work at Pivotal Software.  I was asked recently about Pivotal’s approach to “operational excellence.”  The answer has a lot to do with just how “cloud native” Pivotal is.

Pivotal’s heart and soul rest in the practices of Lean and Agile methodologies and especially Extreme Programming. The platforms that Pivotal has helped build are platforms focused on increasing developer productivity and shortening software release cycles.  Operational success is measured on the achieved outcomes like improved software release velocity with fewer bugs, and not as much on operations-specific metrics like reductions in trouble tickets.  Continue reading →

Rethinking Enterprise “home security” as “personal security”

Sometimes behaving in a completely different way changes the rules of the game you’re playing.  In the world of home security, it would be so common a behavior no one would think to ask you, “Do you lock your door when you leave your apartment for the day?”  Of course you do, because when you return at night, you’d like to find all the stuff you had when you left that morning.

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Platforms matter to Ops, Devs, and the business

Software dominates the world.  Everywhere organizations are writing software to automate manual business processes and gain advantage through speed to market, speed to transact business, making it easy to do business, and providing rich capabilities sooner than their competition.

Since software is so important to the lives of modern businesses, why do we still think it’s hard to deliver software people like to use?  Continue reading →