IBM Cloud: it’s the infrastructure, stupid

Little check-in on IBM cloud strategy with OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, and misc.: “Perhaps more importantly IBM was explicitly positioning to the effect that not all workloads are Cloud Native, 12-Factor etc. Enterprise developers are not used to building or running stateless apps.” IBM Cloud: it’s the infrastructure, stupid

Coté Memo #074: "Let's start an anonymous club."

It’s mostly links this week, with a big add video ad for my pal below: Get your lurn on [player.vimeo.com/video/121… Do you want to bone up on your product management skills? Check out this two day workshop from Craftman PM. I used to work with Prabhakar and he’s anything but boring when it comes to opinions around product. Check out more details, and if you use the code COTE when registering, you’ll get $250 off!

There’s no easy way to model DevOps ROI

Think you can show DevOps ROI? Think again “What is the ROI for DevOps?” is a question that has been tossed my way frequently of late. There are numerous reasons why this is at the same time an absurd but also important question. Modeling DevOps ROI is absurd because predicting the gains and costs of a process, let alone one as new as DevOps, is difficult and dependent on all sorts of unique variables per organization.