Quotes About Integration

As part of the First Way, you must gain a true understanding of the business system that it operates in.

a continuous integration server that is doing code builds and automated tests on Data Hub for every check-in,

Locality in our code is what keeps systems loosely coupled, enabling us to deliver features faster.

Without constant feedback from a centralized build, integration, and test system, they really have no idea what will happen when all their work is merged with everyone else's.

IT is not just a department. IT is a competency that we need to gain as an entire company.

High touch marketing requires high tech. But if there's so many of us assigned to these Marketing projects,

Before, I was merely worried that it Operations was under attack by Development, Information Security, Audit, and the business. Now, I'm starting to realize that my primary managers seem to be at war with each other, as well. What will it take for us to all get along?

By adding the expertise of QA, IT Operations, and Infosec into delivery teams and automated self-service tools and platforms, teams are able to use that expertise in their daily work without being dependent on other teams.

Furthermore, integrating the objectives of QA and Operations into everyone's daily work reduces firefighting, hardship, and toil, while making people more productive and increasing joy in the work we do. We not only improve outcomes, but our organization is better able to win in the marketplace.

You know what your problem is?" Erik says, pointing a finger at John. "You never see the end-to-end business process, so I guarantee you that many of the controls you want to put in aren't even necessary.

This includes the creation of automated build, integration, and test processes so that we can immediately detect when a change has been introduced that takes us out of a correctly functioning and deployable state.

Every company is a technology company, regardless of what business they think they're in. A bank is just an IT company with a banking license."†

In the DevOps ideal, developers receive fast, constant feedback on their work, which enables them to quickly and independently implement, integrate, and validate their code, and have the code deployed into the production environment (either

Automated testing helps developers discover their mistakes quickly (usually within minutes), which enables faster fixes as well as genuine learning-learning that is impossible when mistakes are discovered six months later during integration testing, when memories and the link between cause and effect have long faded. Instead of accruing technical debt, problems are fixed as they are found, mobilizing the entire organization if needed, because global goals outweigh local goals.

While we're dreaming big dreams here, let me say this," he continues. "In ten years, I'm certain every COO worth their salt will have come from IT. Any COO who doesn't intimately understand the IT systems that actually run the business is just an empty suit, relying on someone else to do their job.

The goal is clear: enable fast and safe deployments into production, and for the first time in years, do it using the same environments across Dev, Test, and Production.

In technology, our work happens almost entirely within complex systems with a high risk of catastrophic consequences. As

New local knowledge is exploited globally throughout the organization.

Feedback and feedforward loops cause components within a system to reinforce or counteract each other.

integrating the objectives of QA and Operations into everyone's daily work reduces firefighting, hardship, and toil, while making people more productive and increasing joy in the work we do.

By contrast, the early majority want to buy a productivity improvement for existing operations. They are looking to minimize the discontinuity with the old ways. They want evolution, not revolution. They want technology to enhance, not overthrow, the established ways of doing business. And above all, they do not want to debug somebody else's product. By the time they adopt it, they want it to work properly and to integrate appropriately with their existing technology base.

Big enough to matter, small enough to lead, good fit with your crown jewels. If

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

the extant manuscript evidence reveals that from the time he began work on Kiss Me, Kate Porter was greatly concerned with creating a musical that integrated music with the book.