DevOps, Platform Strategy and Transformation

The software development lifecycle reminds me of the proverb of the three blind people confronting an elephant. One grabs the trunk and says it's a snake, another touches a tusk and says it's a spear, while the third feels its side and calls it a wall. The moral of the proverb is that perception has a lot to do with perspective.

For a long time, the perspective on software was that it was a cost. It was a necessary cost for sure, but other considerations -- like how users experience it and how employees work with it, as determined by its quality -- were secondary. That perception was handed down pretty much intact from the mainframe days, and as long as cloud computing and subscription services didn't exist, it was good enough. More>>