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Ensuring a Healthy Customer Experience for Over One Million Members

Posted on April 15, 2019

About the Client Established in 1993, Fitness First is the largest chain of private gyms in the world, with around 360 fitness clubs across 17 countries, and approximately one million members. Legacy technology made it extremely complex and time-consuming to develop and deploy software changes, directly impacting staff productivity and the experience of members. After […]

Supercharge your Cloud Migration with DevOps

Posted on February 27, 2019

Don’t Get Left Behind Many organisations moving to the cloud cite digital transformation as one of their core drivers. But simply replicating existing assets and applications in the new environment isn’t going to deliver good results. IT leaders have started to recognise that simply moving to cloud is not enough. There’s now solid evidence that […]

Simplifying Your Options For Cloud Migration

Posted on October 23, 2018

After much persuasion, deliberation and perhaps a couple of false starts, the board has agreed to a full cloud migration. Now what? Three paths to keep your cloud strategy on track Gartner first outlined the ‘5 Rs’ of cloud migration in 2011. Microsoft broadly follows this framework – albeit with some additions and adaptations. More […]

Puppet vs Ansible

Posted on January 10, 2018

The pros and cons of Ansible and Puppet, from a lead DevOps engineer who’s worked extensively with both tools. I have realised that people still struggle to find differences between Ansible and Puppet. As more of a Puppet person myself, when I had to switch entirely from using Puppet to Ansible within my role, I […]

Digital Transformation and DevOps

Posted on October 4, 2016

Unlock the Value from Digital Transformation and DevOps We are on the cusp of a new phase in Digital Transformation, where market leaders begin to progress from being digital players to being true digital transformers and disrupters, demonstrated through ambitious new business models and ecosystems. DevOps has been proven to increase the speed, efficiency and […]

The Top 10 DevOps Operational Requirements

Posted on December 19, 2013

Introduction One of the key tenets of DevOps is to involve operations teams in the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) and ensure that ‘operational requirements’ (ORs, formerly known as ‘non-functional requirements/NFRs’) are incorporated into the design and build phases. But how does this work in practice? To help answer that question we have compiled this […]

DevOps and the Product Owner

Posted on December 16, 2013

The Agile Product Owner There’s a lot of talk about the ‘product-centric’ approach to DevOps but what does this mean for the role of the agile product owner? Agile author Mike Cohn from MountainGoat Software says they act as a project’s key stakeholder: “Part of the product owner responsibilities is to have a vision of […]

DevOps Does Not Equate to ‘Developers Managing Production’

Posted on February 17, 2013

Introduction For some organisations, working in a DevOps model really means “We have no operations capability and rely on the developers to build, deploy and manage all of the environments from development to test to production. Mostly by hand. Badly.” This is quite frustrating for anyone from an operations background. Operations is a discipline, with […]