Category Archives: DevOps

Report from Engage 2016

By Dick Stark BMC’s annual user group conference, Engage, wound down last Friday in Las Vegas. Attendance was up this year by 10% with more than 2000 customers, partners, and BMC employees in attendance. RightStar had good booth traffic, and … Continue reading

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The Art of Business Value

By Dick Stark Mark Schwartz, CIO at US Citizen and Immigration services (USCIS), is one of the leaders in the government’s move towards agile. Specifically, Mark is a proponent of continuous delivery as a way to shorten the software development … Continue reading

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RightStar’s Atlassian Advisory Services

By Dick Stark What do most new Atlassian RightStar customers have in common? Answer: Atlassian Advisory Services. Anyone on RightStar Atlassian team can perform this assessment. Here’s what they do. RightStar offers DevOps solutions to assist companies to drive down … Continue reading

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Report from the Atlassian Federal Symposium

By Dick Stark On Tuesday, May 10, RightStar exhibited at the Atlassian Federal Symposium, “Delivering Innovation in the Federal Government.” I also sat on a panel that addressed DevOps and Agile Government. Atlassian had a good turnout with more than … Continue reading

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Is Agile Government an Oxymoron?

By Dick Stark The needle has hardly moved since the COBOL days. Projects are taking longer, have less success, over-run to a greater extent. Meanwhile citizens are ill served. What is needed is not making things more agile, but simplifying … Continue reading

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Using Agile to Ignite Your ITSM Projects

By Dick Stark Last Wednesday, Sam Wood and I presented a webinar entitled, “Using Agile to Ignite Your ITSM projects.” We discussed the advantages of using Agile as the framework for Remedy ITSM implementations. Sam should know. He implemented Remedy and … Continue reading

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DevOps is the Bimodal Bridge

By Dick Stark Last week bmc emailed its customer base a Gartner Reprint entitled, DevOps is the Bimodal Bridge. Like ITIL of ten years ago, DevOps is starting to get a lot of attention and Gartner customers are asking what … Continue reading

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The Phoenix Project, Part 2

By Dick Stark By now, many of you should have had a chance to start The Phoenix Project, a book I discussed in my last blog.  To recap, The Phoenix Project, written by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford, … Continue reading

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The Phoenix Project, Part 1

By Dick Stark I recently finished The Phoenix Project, and made this required reading for our entire company. It is a story about “IT, DevOps, and helping your business win.”  Who ever thought a book about IT would be a … Continue reading

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Why I’m Optimistic about DevOps

By Dick Stark Last Tuesday, I attended a webinar, Tools-Driven DevOps and Continuous Software Delivery. There, Julie Craig, research director at EMA presented the results of its latest survey-based research on DevOps and Continuous Delivery. She confirmed that DevOps is … Continue reading

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