Mik Kersten, CEO and Founder of TaskTop, has an interesting story to tell. While most DevOps initiatives are built around the idea of toolchain automation and cultural transformation, Kersten wants you to think deeper than that. He wants you to be able to create a value stream, giving you the ability to determine the real business value of your Dev…

Rosalind Radcliffe is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM and Chief Architect for DevOps in Enterprise Systems. I spoke with her at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco, where we talked about her interest in technology as a child, what she has been working on at IBM and what she hope to accomplish in the next year.…

Courtney Kissler considers communication, information sharing and a passion for project measurement visibility as critical to any DevOps transformation. Her path to DevOps began on a whim, when she switched degrees from accounting to computer science while at Eastern Washington University. After working at a few startups in Seattle, Courtney began …

Tina Donbeck’s journey to DevOps began in a unique way, not through technology but through a degree in psychology. Her perception of DevOps is through the lens of change management. Her focus is not on the technical as much as cultural change and the customer perspective. In this Innovator’s Journey profile, Tina talks about her transition from psy…

“Competition used to be based upon physical and mechanical things. It's all of a sudden being based upon software, firmware, the ability to make things happen.” – Gary GruverGary Gruver’s passion is transformation of IT in large enterprises. When I say large, that means working with companies such as HP and Macys to transform their software supply …

J. Paul Reed has over fifteen years experience in build engineering, release management, software configuration management, and process design, with a focus on discovering business requirements and integrating those needs to get products shipped faster and more reliably. In this Innovator's Journey, we talk with Paul about how he got started, his w…

Brandon Holcomb is worried about scaling IT projects at large enterprises. As head of infrastructure at Equifax, and previously at Home Depot, Holcomb has led large, transformational projects while concentrating on the ability of the new systems to scale. He has discovered that most issues are created by lack of communication between teams. In this…